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Written by Hemera :nixos: :ms_snow_leopard: on 2025-01-25 at 23:09

Pronouncing CentOS like Mentos

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Written by Tvorsk on 2025-01-25 at 23:09

@Hemera ... isn't that the only way?

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Written by Hemera :nixos: :ms_snow_leopard: on 2025-01-25 at 23:11

@Tvorsk I’ve been saying it cent-OS

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Written by Tvorsk on 2025-01-25 at 23:18

@Hemera well, yipe.

That probably is what the inventors of the name wanted.

I'm so irrecoverably tuned to reading those initlals as an integral "-oss" part of the word I really never even thought about this being an option.

And yes, Apple computers run "muckos" if you'd ask me out loud. >.>

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Written by Odoben on 2025-01-25 at 23:19

@Hemera @Tvorsk I've heard both with about equal frequency

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Written by Xoa Gray on 2025-01-25 at 23:30

@Hemera Hmm, I've heard one person do that, and they were a RHEL guy, so I just figured they were punching down at the “copycat" OS.

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