| Asus |
AY-sis |
AY-soos |
Official company pronunciation |
| daemon |
DAY-men |
DEE-men |
Like “demon”; both used, but DEE-men is traditional |
| Debian |
DEE-bee-in |
DEB-ee-in |
Named after Debra and Ian |
| Gaussian |
GOW-shin |
GOW-see-en |
Named after Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Gnome |
nome |
guh-NOME |
The “g” is pronounced |
| GUID |
goo-eed |
gwid |
Rhymes with “quid” |
| JSON |
JAY-sahn |
JAY-sin |
Like the name “Jason” |
| LaTeX |
LAY-teks |
luh-TEK / lay-TEK |
Ends with a hard “k”, not “ks” |
| Linus (Torvalds) |
LYE-nus |
LEE-nus |
Finnish pronunciation |
| OS X (macOS) |
oh-ess-EX |
oh-ess-TEN |
“X” as the Roman numeral 10 |
| Poisson (distribution) |
poy-son |
pwah-SOHN |
French nasal ending |
| PyPI |
PIE-pee |
PIE-pee-eye |
“Python Package Index” acronym |
| Qt |
kyoo-tee |
cute |
Literally stands for “cute” |
| SUSE (Linux) |
SOO-say |
SOO-suh / sooz |
From Software und System-Entwicklung |
| Ubuntu |
ooh-BUN-too |
ooh-BOON-too |
From a Zulu word meaning “humanity” |
| Vite |
vyte |
veet |
French for “fast” |