[Sussex] A beginner's guide to GNU/Linux

Nic James Ferrier nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk
Thu Nov 30 17:10:16 UTC 2006


Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedresearch.com> writes:

> Funny, I always thought it was pronounced:
>
> Ob-sew-l33t eddy-tor 4 ate-tea khol-hum seer-ee-all turm-ee-nulls

Do you know... I saw a very well respected hacker (I think he calls
himself an architect) using a windowed vi on osx the other day.

Most amusing.


> Personally I find this much easier on the vocal chords:
>
> Gur-noo ee-max 

We need a new, more positive Emacs song, I think. The existing one
could be described as an archaic old folk song.

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