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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Well, ackshually...

tl;dw: the Swedish and Finnish pronunciations use the same "i" as "Linux", but Torvalds doesn't care if people use the English one.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I first started using Linux in 1995 (I think it was kernel 1.2 or something), and this was being argued over (or at least discussed) even back then. The conclusion was that Leenus doesn’t care how you pronounce Leenux.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he pronounces it Leenooks

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

You’re exactly correct. That was my best approximation.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 11 points 1 year ago

That was very enlightening, the Spanish pronunciation is actually more close to that than the English one, so I feel very validated as an Spanish speaker. Thank you. Also didn't knew that he wasn't from an English speaking country.

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