helsinginsanomat.fi— Do you know who was responsible for telling Bill Gates about Linux for the first time? Annikka Mutanen apparently. Here's her first hand account.
Sep 24, 2005View in Crawl 4
"double click is never used in Mac OS X, neither in some Linux distros."where are you from? if a program is on the desktop on my mac, i double click to run. if its in the dock, then its single click. besides, why do you have to get all technical (or really, why am i replying? oh well, its already typed out)
@curt:"originally it was pronounced Line-ucks like its creators namesake"If you've seen Revolution OS, you'll remember that Linus himself noted that it should ALWAYS be pronounced like lihn-ucks. (as in 'in', not 'ine')... But that's just Linus, he doesn't know Linux as well as the 'oldschoolers' :)
markbyersSep 24, 2005
> More and more people use Linux, but still not too many people do.About 20-30 million or so people use Linux.<a class="user" href="http://counter.li.org/estimates.php">http://counter.li.org/estimates.php</a>
Closed AccountSep 24, 2005
article is down for me
sneakerelphSep 24, 2005
"double click is never used in Mac OS X, neither in some Linux distros."where are you from? if a program is on the desktop on my mac, i double click to run. if its in the dock, then its single click. besides, why do you have to get all technical (or really, why am i replying? oh well, its already typed out)
barbobotSep 24, 2005
okay sorry i have to say it, exe's are not as easy to install as programs are on Linux, especially with apt.
burkeSep 25, 2005
@curt:"originally it was pronounced Line-ucks like its creators namesake"If you've seen Revolution OS, you'll remember that Linus himself noted that it should ALWAYS be pronounced like lihn-ucks. (as in 'in', not 'ine')... But that's just Linus, he doesn't know Linux as well as the 'oldschoolers' :)
burkeSep 25, 2005
Oh. and on top of that, in Finnish, his name is pronounced 'Lee-nus'... and please, no jokes about genitals.
scbysnxSep 26, 2005
"> Technically and originally it was pronounced Line-ucks like> its creators namesake, Linus (Line-us not Lin-us)Linus himself begs to differ :/<a class="user" href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au"</a>you'll note from this quote he says lee nuxthank you so much for a audio I knew I was going to get flamed for saying he pronouces it lee-nux