Re: What's the pronunciation of "SELinux"?

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:29:12PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 16:47, Park Lee <parklee_sel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >   Does anyone know what the pronunciation of "SELinux"
> > is? i.e. How to pronounce SELinux?
> 
> That depends on the speed.
> 
> Slowly it's "S E Linux", more quickly it may resemble "sea-Linux"
> and some people have pronounced it like "easy-Linux".
> 
> For the pronounciation of "Linux" you want the file "linux.au" where
> Linus tells it.  Let me know by private email if you can't find a
> copy of that file and I'll put it on my site.
> 
> Would you like me to make an MP3 where I say "SE Linux" a few times?

Yes :)

Although in Germany, when talking to Linux folks it might be a nice
idea to pronounce the "SE" in German, that is the "e" in this case is
an "e" like in "elk": This can be understood as a pun, alluding to the
"Mercedes SEL" limousine, which in Germany still seems to be a symbol
for a luxury car: Linuxers, at least those that I know, don't seem to
like it if you allude their non-SElinux systems being substandard ... :P

> 


As for the Torvalds-pronounces-Linux sound files :

from <http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/>:
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.au
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.wav
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.mp3


And even a penguin saying it (little movie, my favorite, so far .. :):
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/media/saylinux.avi
from [<http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm>]

Regards
  Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Pfeiffer
http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer

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