From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:26:57 +0200 From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer To: Russell Coker Cc: Park Lee , SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: What's the pronunciation of "SELinux"? Message-ID: <20050408142657.GA8278@localhost> References: <20050408064742.67765.qmail@web51504.mail.yahoo.com> <200504081729.14844.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200504081729.14844.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:29:12PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2005 16:47, Park Lee 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/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 [] Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.