I'm excited to be here, I'm pretty new to linux. My first encounter with linux was in 2003 when I spent a week downloading debian via a script called jigdo only to find I needed a PhD in computer science to get it to work on my computer at the time. A few months later I had the same success with fedora and slackware. In 2004 I got SUSE working but it wasn't right for me at the time. In 2006 I discovered ubuntu and I have been using it ever since. In 2007, I tried once again to make friends with fedora but she thumbed her nose at my video card. I've also had more fun with BackTrack than I should ever disclose. Red Hat is just down the road (well, an hour down the road in low traffic) and I've always been curious about them. I recently commited myself to learning a more enterprise-ready OS and here I am.
What brought me to CentOS was its reputation for being one of the more secure distros, and its relationship to RH. I plan to use it headless, to expiriment with LAMP and LAPP based web-apps. I did put gnome on for my first go since its all new.
Personally, I sit on the board of a budding non-profit that will eventually need some light IT resources, and so far I think CentOS would be the way to go. I also plan to sit for the CPA Exam in 2010, and gosh do I dislike Intuit software.
So... How do you pronounce CentOS?
like 'mentos,' ie:the freshmaker?
like Cent Oh Es?
Or is there a wrong way...?
Greetings! & How do you pronounce CentOS?
Greetings! & How do you pronounce CentOS?
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jive_turkey wrote:
So... How do you pronounce CentOS?[/quote]
The answer is here:
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jive_turkey wrote:
So... How do you pronounce CentOS?[/quote]
The answer is here:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=threaded&order=ASC&topic_id=313&forum=18&move=next&topic_time=1108748061
Welcome to C-e-n-t-O-S :-)
Re: Greetings! & How do you pronounce CentOS?
My preference:
Cen-Toss
So how you'd say "toss" is at the end and then, Cent, like a cent as in money. So it's Cent Toss
But that's just me probably.
:-D
Cen-Toss
So how you'd say "toss" is at the end and then, Cent, like a cent as in money. So it's Cent Toss
But that's just me probably.
:-D
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Re: Greetings! & How do you pronounce CentOS?
I have heard it called "Kent oh Ess" reason given was:
Leading 'C' stands for 'Community' which has the hard 'kay' sound and Oh-Ess because they are individual letters representing 'Operating' and 'System'
Personally, I say it as Sent Oh Ess, because when I see the letters 'cent' I automatically hear 'sent' in my ear, as in, " that costs five cent."
Big Bear
Leading 'C' stands for 'Community' which has the hard 'kay' sound and Oh-Ess because they are individual letters representing 'Operating' and 'System'
Personally, I say it as Sent Oh Ess, because when I see the letters 'cent' I automatically hear 'sent' in my ear, as in, " that costs five cent."
Big Bear