On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > can download the recording of him saying it from sunsite. > The same applies to Linux. No, Hammish. I have heard Linus pronounce Linux several times from only a few feet away. He has said it Lin-ux (lin-ucks) and sometimes lin-icks but always with the short i sound, not the long e or long i whenever I have heard him say it.