On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:56:38PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > but what swayed me was hearing Linus Torvalds pronounce it himself at the > Silicon Valley LUG meeting ... what, almost two years ago. He says > Lin-icks.
Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
