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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:00:20 -0500
From:      Peter Hummers <phummers@iname.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10
Message-ID:  <306A9C6C-6C6D-11D9-8E07-000502FDB988@iname.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050122080120.GA65042@procyon.nekulturny.org>
References:  <20050122061355.96495.qmail@web53910.mail.yahoo.com> <20050122080120.GA65042@procyon.nekulturny.org>

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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



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