Cannonfodder Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 hhh,, linoooo? 20 years ago when I started comp sci, I used unix. It was pronounced YOU NIXS. When I saw linux, its the same with a LIN NIXS. I have the benefit of age to add to my argument (GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME???) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 Didn't Linus say something like "I don't care how you pronounce it, just use it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 hhh,, linoooo? 20 years ago when I started comp sci, I used unix. It was pronounced YOU NIXS. When I saw linux, its the same with a LIN NIXS. I have the benefit of age to add to my argument (GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME???) That's the only way i have heard it pronounced in New Zealand. Anyway this is a pointless debate people will continue to use the word the way they always have. You say Linux i say Awesome :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest frew Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 i can´t tell you how to pronounce linux right, i´m not from sweden... here in germany everyone pronounces it as it were a german word, whats probably false. :( i think first you have to now how to say linus. then you have to "mix" it with unix :) The thing that is funny about it is that in the US a lot of people pronounce linus as line-us not lin-us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 Cannonfodder has to be correct because I know for a fact that we both pronounce it the same way. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 So Linus secrety Identidy is Tux. Cool!!!! I too say Linux ryiming with cycnics. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Except Mystified says it like a Texan. HOWDY! Ah jess install leeneaks on mah compu whatcha call it! Nelly! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Mystified is a Texan? Anyway, I think people who has simple pronounciation has it easy. They can pronounce it li - nucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 I am NOT a Texan and I do NOT say it like a Texan and cannonfodder is in big trouble. I live in Texas but I wasn't born and raised here and don't have an accent. Even my kids don't have accents! Cannonfodder!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 ROTFL (Now I am ducking) - Bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cyclops Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 I am NOT a Texan and I do NOT say it like a Texan and cannonfodder is in big trouble. I live in Texas but I wasn't born and raised here and don't have an accent. Even my kids don't have accents! Cannonfodder!!!! I was born and raised in Texas and still live here, but I don't have an accent, either. It seems that just about everyone else does, though, especially once I leave Texas. :wink: :lol: BTW - I've always thought it was pronounced 'Li-nucks', with a short 'i' sound... :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 My husband is from East Texas. Need I say more? :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 you americans really think you can pronounce everything the american way?... Yes it's seems that we do. We are the pig head bullies of the world and want things done our way :( Anyway, Americans butchered the English language so much that they dare to butcher another language This is soooooo true I was brought up on the Queens English by my mother and father. I went to college (also grade school, middle school, high school) here in the United States and was given hell because of the way that I wanted to spell certain words! *SIGH* So now I do things the "American way" with "American English". (BLEAH!) I get really frustrated when I go to purchase products with Italian names and Americans correct my pronounciation. Just another point to show how we Americans think we know it all! (when we don't) *SIGH* :roll: :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eppoh Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 If you are using Mandrake 9.0 then you will probably prononoune it S-L-O-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 If you are using Mandrake 9.0 then you will probably prononoune it S-L-O-W I would pronounce it F-A-S-T so i guess im more lucky than you, and have it setup better. Certainly if i had winblows xp on my box it would be much slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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