How do you pronounce daemon in Linux/Unix?

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Citadel535

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I guy I work with keeps saying it day-men and he keeps calling "services" in Windows systems day-mens. I think its d-mon (as in the evil things). What is the true Unix/Linux way to say daemon?

Its really driving me nuts!!!:confused:
 
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gopunk

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proper way is "demon", as for techie way, i have no idea. i pronounce it as it is spelled.
 
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HappyPuppy

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This from Dictionary.com:

<operating system> /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological meaning, later rationalised as the acronym "Disk And Execution MONitor") A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon).

Looks like both ways are correct. Hooray for us.
 
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rickn

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in an RPG it would be daemon as in demon, such as a daemon in UO. In unix circles, it is very often pronounced day'mn
 
silverpig

silverpig

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AFAIK the ae is supposed to be pronounced as ee. I've seen hemoglobin spelled as haemoglobin and other such things...
 
her209

her209

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I pronouce it "eH-mon", the d is silent.

Besides, who wants to know that they have little demons running around inside their computer :)
 
Bignate603

Bignate603

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Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Day-me-on

Nothing personal, but where did the "e" in "me" come from?
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I don't know, that's just the way I heard it pronounced between my friends. Very possible it's wrong considering most of us get the info for it off the net and not by talking to somebody, so pronounciation can always be a bit off the mark.
 
her209

her209

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Besides, who's writing these computer science terms, not enlgish majors I hope. :)

EDIT: I aint certainly aint one Enlgish major :)
 
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db

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(pronounced: demon (or) damon)
"daemon" and "demon" both come from the same root word, but "daemon" is an older form and it's meaning is slightly different. "daemon" is an attendant spirit that influences someone's character or personality. Daemon's aren't minions of good OR evil; they are creatures of independent thought and will. Mick Bailey, a British gentleman working on the CTSS programming staff at MIT during the early 1960?s, first used "Daemon" as a computer term. Daemons made their way from CTSS to Multics to UNIX." [Quoted from "Unix System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, et al.Thank you Brian Tam for the definition!
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:)
 
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DaiShan

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Originally posted by: gopunk
proper way is "demon", as for techie way, i have no idea. i pronounce it as it is spelled.
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I see how dictionary.com says both ways are correct, but if you follow proper english pronunciation, it would be day-mon, I think the old addage applies "When 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking" meaning you pronounce the "a" not the "e". Just my take on it though, NFS4's sig applies.

 
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Soybomb

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day-men

Along similar lines would you pronounce "Daewoo" as day-woo or dee-woo? My way makes sense ;)
 
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