How do you say Linux?

**+Daemon+** · July 2nd, 2003, 10:10 AM

Just wondering, ive used linux since 1992 and have always said it the old way.. it seems people say it lin-ex, not li-nucks

oh-well its a po-ta-to and pa-tot-o type thing

**Outcoded** · July 2nd, 2003, 11:48 AM

l-eye-nucks

**Atodini** · July 2nd, 2003, 12:44 PM

You might just get an explanation here:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/1241/1241156.html

John

**NooNoo** · July 2nd, 2003, 02:30 PM

I would pronounce it Lye nucks... this is because at school I was taught that if a vowel followed a single consonant, it would make the previous vowel "soft".... however Linux isn't English is it? So how does Torvalds pronounce it?

**Stalemate** · July 2nd, 2003, 02:38 PM

Originally posted by NooNoo
I would pronounce it Lye nucks... this is because at school I was taught that if a vowel followed a single consonant, it would make the previous vowel "soft".... however Linux isn't English is it? So how does Torvalds pronounce it?

He pronounces it between "Lin-ux" and "Lean-ux", as opposed to "Line-ux".

More confusion here: http://hostingworks.com/support/dict.phtml?foldoc=Linux
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=linux
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/

Last link points to an MP3 of Linus Torvalds: http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronuncia...says-linux.mp3

**MorseLady** · July 2nd, 2003, 04:22 PM

I agree with Noo, that is what we were taught too and I am sticking firmly to LIE-NUCKS!

Is Torvald Swedish or Norwegian? I can find Linux in my Swedish Dictionary (as a Radio Ham I keep Dictionaries in many languages and can exchange greetings in a few using morse). Does anyone know what Linux means?

**DocPC** · July 2nd, 2003, 04:39 PM

Originally posted by MorseLady
I agree with Noo, that is what we were taught too and I am sticking firmly to LIE-NUCKS!

Is Torvald Swedish or Norwegian? I can find Linux in my Swedish Dictionary (as a Radio Ham I keep Dictionaries in many languages and can exchange greetings in a few using morse). Does anyone know what Linux means?

LInus...uNIX= Linux.

**gtiseb** · July 3rd, 2003, 11:36 AM

ok, this is an old debate that was settled by linus himself with the above mentioned Mp3. AS for being a word, it's not. Linus made it up to give his version of unix a name that would represent him, hence LINux. That's it.

**+Daemon+** · July 3rd, 2003, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by gtiseb
ok, this is an old debate that was settled by linus himself with the above mentioned Mp3. AS for being a word, it's not. Linus made it up to give his version of unix a name that would represent him, hence LINux. That's it.

yes, but Im asking how do you say it

nothing more....

in the best yoda voice "off topic we are "

**TripleRLtd** · October 3rd, 2003, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

I would pronounce it Lye nucks... this is because at school I was taught that if a vowel followed a single consonant, it would make the previous vowel "soft".... however Linux isn't English is it? So how does Torvalds pronounce it?

Exactly.
I used to say Lienux until I heard someone call it Linux. So, being curious, I checked it out.
Sure enough, he as opposed to myself was right.
I gather you cousins over there have seen Charlie Brown?
Remember the character Linus?
Lienus?
Perhaps Linus T doesn't like Charlie Brown.