From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 12:00:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471AA16A4D0 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pop-a065b10.pas.sa.earthlink.net (pop-a065b10.pas.sa.earthlink.net [207.217.121.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1077343D1D for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:00:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phummers@iname.com) Received: from sdn-ap-013dcwashp0043.dialsprint.net ([63.188.128.43] helo=[10.0.1.4]) by pop-a065b10.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CsJwG-0006XI-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:00:24 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) In-Reply-To: <20050122080120.GA65042@procyon.nekulturny.org> References: <20050122061355.96495.qmail@web53910.mail.yahoo.com> <20050122080120.GA65042@procyon.nekulturny.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <306A9C6C-6C6D-11D9-8E07-000502FDB988@iname.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Peter Hummers Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:00:20 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:00:53 -0000 On Jan 22, 2005, at 3:01 AM, Danny MacMillan wrote: > 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 :) Hmm. Shouldn't that be "gaNoo lin'nuks?" ;-) ~Peter Hummers == "It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps. ~Alfred Polgar