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I know Linus is pronounced with an "eye" sound but I still call it "lynn-ucks".


"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and this is how I pronounce Linux: Linux."

In the old days I configured my sound card enough times that this sentence is burned in my auditory cortex.


This is the original audio I was referring to: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg

Turns out, as usual, human memory can suffer from bit corruption (but it's not stochastic) :)


Hell, I straight up had that in my init sequence (I believe appended to the end of /etc/init.d/audio or something like that), so it played every boot.





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