Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by rscnt » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by dctoedt » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee. Perhaps he uses the former to conform to expectations of American English speakers who are used to Linus Pauling and the Linus character in the Peanuts comic strip.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus...

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by gtk40 » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 4:57 PM UTC

dctoedt wrote: post #2

Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie ; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee. Perhaps he uses the former to conform to expectations of American English speakers who are used to Linus Pauling and the Linus character in the Peanuts comic strip. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus...

"I'm Lee-nus Torvalds and I pronounce 'Lee-nux' as 'Lee-nux.'"

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by malkia » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

There are some programmers on the planet that I just don't know how to they do the things they do: Linus Torvalds, Mike Pall (luajit), Edi Weitz (Common Lisp) and several others, but these were the ones I always remmember from my limited exposure to the unlimited world of operating systems, languages, environments and virtual machinery...

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by andrewbinstock » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:15 PM UTC

dctoedt wrote: post #2

Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie ; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee. Perhaps he uses the former to conform to expectations of American English speakers who are used to Linus Pauling and the Linus character in the Peanuts comic strip. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus...

During the early days of Linux's emergence, it was pronounced"Lie-nux", "Lin-ux," and "Lee-nux" by various groups of users. Finally, Lin-ux became the standard pronunciation b/c Torvalds explained that in Finnish his name was pronounced Lin-us, not Lie-nus.

Given that he's spent most of his life in the US, he may have subsequently decided to "americanize" the pronunciation.

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by baldfat » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:19 PM UTC

I feel like I read this story every 6 months.

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by pschastain » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:26 PM UTC

I stopped reading when the author referred to Linux as an operating system.

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by acveilleux » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

pschastain wrote: post #7

I stopped reading when the author referred to Linux as an operating system.

While it's only a Kernel, common, if sloppy, usage for the last 20 years has been to refer to any distro as Linux.

And, well, the Kernel is really the only common things between the various distros these days.

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by emodendroket » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

pschastain wrote: post #7

I stopped reading when the author referred to Linux as an operating system.

Wow, Richard Stallman's posting here. What an honor.

Re: Profile of Linus Torvalds

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Post by Nux » Tue, Jun 16, 2015, 5:39 PM UTC

gtk40 wrote: post #3

dctoedt wrote: post #2

Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie ; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee. Perhaps he uses the former to conform to expectations of American English speakers who are used to Linus Pauling and the Linus character in the Peanuts comic strip. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus...

"I'm Lee-nus Torvalds and I pronounce 'Lee-nux' as 'Lee-nux.'"

http://dl.nux.ro/audio/linus-says-linux.oga