Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:01:20 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 Message-ID: <20050122080120.GA65042@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <20050122061355.96495.qmail@web53910.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050122061355.96495.qmail@web53910.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:13:54PM -0800, stheg olloydson wrote: > > ... > > P.S. If the "name" in your addy is meant to be phonetically identical > to the name "Linux", it isn't. Linus pronounces it "lee-nooks", where > the oo sound is the same as in smooth, not foot (neutrally-accented > American pronunciation). After living in the States for some time now, > I know Americans say it the same way you apparently do, but as with > most things these days, just because an American says it doesn't make > it true. <That's a joke! Don't you people get all jingoistic or > xenophobic on me. HA! That's another joke! Sorry, but the recent > Coronat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Inauguration has left me slightly stupified. -My > last joke! Really! I wouldn't want to have Homeland Security think I'm > really anti-American. Besides, I have to go, someone's pounding on the > door. I wonder who it could be at this time of ni It seems that Linus now pronounces it lin' nuks. He makes it clear in "Revolution OS" (Wonderview Productions, 2003) that he doesn't consider the rules he uses to pronounce his own name to apply to Linux (after demonstratively speaking his name as he pronounces it in each of the languages he speaks, he states, "But 'Linux' is always lin' nuks"). This is in clear contradiction to the sound file on esr's web site. Since he can't even make up his own mind, it hardly seems proper to cite him as the ultimate authority on the subject. But, if one were to do so, he would be squarely in the Americans' camp :) -- Danny
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