I've heard Red Hat referred to as "root hat".

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:42 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

>
> Dave Horsfall's comment about AIX made me think.     The joker in me has
>  always been impressed by how marketing people 'missed' the obvious
> pronunciations that would lead to serious
>
> jokes.
> Some of the more memorable ones from the UNIX world that I knew: AIX ->
> "aches", CRDS -> "cruds", HP-UX -> HP "yucks" and "hockey pucks" and my
> favorite: RHEL -> "our hell"
>
> I bet there are more and others I did know/consider ;-)
>
> That said, I did hear a pro-VMS person in ZKO (*i.e.* a DECie) once tried
> refered to "DEC Ultrix" as Dirty Tricks, but I never heard that one take
> off/be repeated outside of ZKO.
>
> For history we probably should try to collect them, although I fear the
> context of the joke in the future may be lost.
>
>
> Clem
> ᐧ
>


-- 
Eric Wayte