I pronounce it the usual way, but in the back of my mind (I keep forgetting to look into it), I’ve wondered if the “I” was originally intended to be pronounced like “Linus”.
In early versions of Linux when manually setting up your sound card, Redhat came with a test audio clip of Linus Torvolds saying “I province Linux as Linux”. Even though it is named after him he did not pronounce it like his name: Ly-nix.
I have absolutely no idea how “Linux” is supposed to be pronounced. True story.
linu as in Linus Torvalds.
X as in unix
from the horse’s (penguin’s?) mouth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
Here’s a helpful mnemonic: “Jet Li got eczema from radiation poisoning”
Li - as in Jet Li
nu - as in nuculer radiation
x - as in eczema
Li-nu-x
edit: spacing
Using “nuclear” as an example of how to correctly pronounce a different word is a bold choice
Check my spelling again.
I pronounce it the usual way, but in the back of my mind (I keep forgetting to look into it), I’ve wondered if the “I” was originally intended to be pronounced like “Linus”.
In early versions of Linux when manually setting up your sound card, Redhat came with a test audio clip of Linus Torvolds saying “I province Linux as Linux”. Even though it is named after him he did not pronounce it like his name: Ly-nix.
Well that settles that!
It’s pronounced like this