MATE Desktop

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Wed Jul 25 22:15:15 UTC 2012


On 07/25/2012 05:43 PM, Graham Todd wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:22:33 +0100
> Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com>  wrote:
/snip/

>
> Anyway, no matter how MATE should be spelt and pronounced, we Brits
> (who use Linux) will no doubt call it Mate (as in friend).  I don't
> think it much matters as long as we all know to which desktop we refer.
> After all most of us refer to our OS as Line-ux instead of Lin-ux, so I
> cannot see why all this heat over the final E in MATE being accented,
> is relevant, certainly in the English-speaking world.
>
> -- Graham Todd
>
I think you Brits are correct in this.  After all, Linux (Line-ux) was
invented by Linus (Line-us) Torwalds (SP?).  I don't know why
most Americans like the "Lin" pronunciation.

Just my 2ยข --doug

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