[ale] pronunciation

Frank Zamenski fzamenski at voyager.net
Sun Feb 4 16:33:08 EST 2001



Thanks for resolving that. I've read also that 'eiter' is correct.
Related... I pronounce Linux as Lin-ucks.
Others say Lee-nix, sounds like Kleenix... or Robert E. Lee[nux]? :)
So, am I 'paper'?
I guess I don't much care as it's said Linus himself doesn't care how
its pronounced either. ;)

-fgz


From: "Sue Bauer-Lee" <sblee at tazmania.org>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
Cc: "Ale" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] pronunciation


> I couldn't resist. :)  Eiter is correct.
>
>
> daemon
>
> <operating system> /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological meaning,
later
> rationalised as the acronym "Disk And Execution MONitor") A program that
is
> not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to
occur.
> The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a
> daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only
because
> it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon).
..snip..

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