Talk:ΜClinux

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[edit] Article name

Why is this at µCLinux? The site for it calls it uClinux (with a lowercase l) and states that it is pronounced as you-see-Linux. --/ɛvɪs/ /tɑːk/ /kɑntɹɪbjuʃənz/ 20:19, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

It is because they use the greek letter mu, which is pronounced 'you'.--YGagarin 21:10, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The site uses a lowercase Latin u, not a lowercase Greek mu or a micro symbol. --Evice 18:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

While the official homepage for the project ( http://uclinux.org/ ) has a big headline graphic that looks like "µClinux", the actual text of the site always uses "uClinux" -- which it uses about a dozen times just on the main page.

(Except for the trademarks footnote at the bottom of the main page and some other pages, which mentions both the "µClinux" and "uClinux").

So I agree with Evice -- the people in the project call it "uClinux", and that is the most common name, so that is the name Wikipedia should use, according to Wikipedia:Naming conflict. (I'm going to explain away the "µClinux" big headline graphic as "artistic license".) --68.0.124.33 (talk) 03:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] U vs Μ

U derives from the Greek Υυ (upsilon);
Μμ is the ancestor of the Latin M.

Their glyphs may appear similar but the letters themselves are not at all related—they were borrowed before miniscules existed.—Kbolino 07:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Did you not read my talk page entry? The official site calls it uClinux. --Evice 20:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] uClibc

"...the μClinux project also produced a C library called μClinux..."
Isn't the library called uClibc? 87.174.73.23 07:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)Gerhard

[edit] Last change an explaination 07.01.2008

Sorry for not logging in but i am in a hurry. I though the explaination needed to be added since it the pronunciation can be taken as an error, whereas the creators of the program seem (from the website) to have chosen to pronounce u -a common replacement for the Greek mu in ascii- in English which is odd. Kosta Servis 119.11.96.130 (talk) 21:09, 6 January 2008 (UTC)