From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 14:33:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E60137B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14LuxM-0003S1-00; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:33:29 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C6D5DB0; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:32:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 99BA012C49; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:32:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:32:55 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Danny Pansters Cc: "Zaitsau, Andrei" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curiosity Message-ID: <20010125233255.A1257@raggedclown.net> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E8D8@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <01012516521002.17676@ricin.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01012516521002.17676@ricin.localnet>; from danny@ricin.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:52:10PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:52:10PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > > > Is it true that "LINUX" stands for Linux Is Not UniX (LINUX) > > > > No its not. Linus named it after himself. > And it is pronounced to rhyme with "cynics" (true !) and not a la the Peanuts cartoon character. ... so if I write an O/S "cliffux" you will have to pronounce it "clinics", so you could have "clinics clinics" .. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message