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 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!