I have ALWAYS pronounced it LY-nux as in Linus. It seemed to make sense, back when I first READ about it. Who knows how to 'pronounce' most of what programmers use to code with anyway, since we only READ it! In the BASIC days the controversy for me was chir-string or character-string for chr$ and char was either pronounced as it is spelled or said character... for c programs... I think Linus, a programer, considers it correct as long as it is spelled l-i-n-u-x, by the way a "five letter word". for those who know what I mean.....
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Gimme a break.. I was sure that I invented this sometime in oh I dunno 1996...
Anyone else invent it?, cause if not, I am sueing...
I have ALWAYS pronounced it LY-nux as in Linus. It seemed to make sense, back when I first READ about it. Who knows how to 'pronounce' most of what programmers use to code with anyway, since we only READ it! In the BASIC days the controversy for me was chir-string or character-string for chr$ and char was either pronounced as it is spelled or said character... for c programs... I think Linus, a programer, considers it correct as long as it is spelled
l-i-n-u-x, by the way a "five letter word". for those who know what I mean.....
-Scott
They must have posted this so quickly that the couldn't even have it proofread... Nervous? Probably...