Linux or Linux?

[Grouter]

Please someone - just to settle an argument: does one pronounce "linux" as in "wine" or "linux" as in "win"?

 

[PostmanPot]

Win.

Lin-ix.

 

[Grouter]

I lose

 

[milomak]

Linus is pronounced Lin and not Line. But I still call it Line-ux

 

[Kasyx]

Yeah, it is supposed to be "lin-ix", but it is a bit of South Africanism leading to it being called "line-ux" (kinda like "day-ta" versus "daa-ta").

I say "line-ux", but I am attempting to start saying "lin-ix" in my quest to remove all South Africanisms from my vocabulary (take that, Lancelot_SA)

 

[SlyFly]

Yea I call it Ly-nex..

 

[Nerfherder]

Only South Africans call it Line-ux the rest of the world pronnounce it Lin-ix... as in Unix.

We are just weird.

 

[PostmanPot]

Yea I call it Ly-nex..

 

[d0b33]

I've always called in Lin-ix not Line-ix and don't really know of anyone that calls it Line-ix.

 

[dionb]

http://www.linux.com/whatislinux/119700

 

[SlyFly]

LIH-nuks

Seems like Im almost right

 

[Lydon]

Oh goodness...to think I've been calling it the wrong thing all these years :O

 

[flarkit]

It is pronounced the way that you feel comfortable (as long as it's recognisable). Linus Torvalds, being Finnish, pronounces it "Lee-nukks", but has stated that there's no rule to it.

nuff sed

 

[antowan]

I don't mind the now "normal" LINE UX, but if I have to hear one more time the word LINE UX repeated to me as if I am a stunted person with a snapped synaptic nerve when I say LEE-NUX the way Linus Torvald's says it, I will give live birth to flesh eating humming birds!

 

[chiskop]

<obligatory>
"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux!"(mp3)

 

[Kasyx]

I bet Linus Torvalds changes his pronunciation every couple of years just to mess with people...

 

[AirWolf]

Wasn't there a discussion about this a while back?

 

[chiskop]

Yep.