[RndTbl] Pronounce Linux?

Montana Quiring montanaq at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 11:37:15 CST 2006


This one here?:
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.wav

-Montana

On 11/16/06, Gilles Detillieux <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> Interesting how Linus seems to be losing his accent.  There was a
> sample audio file included in older versions of Red Hat Linux that had
> Linus saying, with a fairly heavy Scandinavian accent, how to pronounce
> Linux, and back then, it was more like Lee-nooks.  He now seems to
> prefer the more Americanized Linn-ucks pronunciation.
>
> On Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006, at 17:13, Montana Quiring wrote:
> > Linn-ooks?
> > Linn-ucks?
> > Line-ooks?
> > Line-ucks?
> >
> >> From the man himself:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
> >
> > -Montana
>


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