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View Poll Results: How do you pronounce "Linux"?
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"Lin-ucks"
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59.09% |
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"Lin-ex"
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31.82% |
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"Lin-ooks"
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9.09% |
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"Le-nukes"
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"el-eye-en-you-ex"
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10-17-2006, 07:41 PM
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#46
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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I can't understand why people keep arguing when the man himself
has made it quite clear... Lee-nooks
Cheers,
Tink
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10-18-2006, 04:23 AM
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#47
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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i can't believe i revived a futurist thread...  |
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10-21-2006, 08:00 PM
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#48
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Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 112
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I choose "Lin-ucks"
Although I use to say "Lin-ex"
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10-24-2006, 09:18 PM
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#49
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Canada, BC - Burnaby(Vancouver)
Distribution: solaris 10 SPARC
Posts: 22
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I say linux as in: lin-ex
most of the time I tend to say *nix
possibly even pronouncing the astrisk as, of course, 'astrisk' O:
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