[Closed] Oy - geeks - Linux or Linux

The man what done Linux pronounces it thusly

tidy

he should know

Ta

Yeah, it's Linn-ux.

I was baffled as it's "You-Nix"....not "Un-ix".

Arse I'm so old I can remember getting it on 31/2 floppy disks an being all excited getting x windows up an running 🙂

Arse I'm so old I can remember getting it on 31/2 floppy disks

Oh yes, 3 1/2" floppies!
I got O/S 2 on about 20!

Yes, the name Linus is Leenoos in Sweden as opposed to Lyenus like it is in the US, so it's Leenoox, but we'd turn that into Linux I suppose.

I was baffled as it's "You-Nix"....not "Un-ix".

C.f. universe, unicycle, unitard etc.

I'm all excited because last night I got hardware acceleration working in Linux guests in VMWare on Linux host, with the Intel graphics driver - which a lot of people said was not possible. But it is. This means I can have pretty nice usable Gnome in my VMs without having the CPU getting all hot and the battery draining. This made me happy.

theregister was going on about some scandawegian distro the other day.... That looked interesting. I'm getting on pretty well with Mint now the WiFi works.

We created a LINE-ux OS in our office for anyone who dared say it wrong. It didn't do much on install but corrected such errant behaviour.

some scandawegian distro

not sure it's scandiwegian as such, but the latest edition got renamed from Isis to Freya some time back for erm geopolitical reasons.
(my understanding)

Personally, I'd stick with Mint if it's working at least on desktop or reasonably powerful laptop. Mint with Cinnamon is my distro of choice on anything modern.

Elementary OS certainly looks interesting on something like a small eeePC netbook or something.

I'm so old I remember when floppies were floppy

and take them out and turn them over to read the other side

recommend going to Bletchley Park and the National Computing Museum if you want to geek over ye olde worlde hardware (and if you do, go with someone from a different generation)