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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:56:17 -0400
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:03:28 -0700
Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:38:41PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 14:11:04 -0500
> > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Index: book.sgml
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /home/FreeBSD/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.620
> > > diff -u -r1.620 book.sgml
> > > --- book.sgml	31 May 2004 14:58:51 -0000	1.620
> > > +++ book.sgml	5 Jun 2004 18:50:56 -0000
> > > @@ -7002,6 +7002,83 @@
> > >  
> > >      <qandaset>
> > >        <qandaentry>
> > > +        <question id="whatis-X">
> > > +          <para>What is the X Window System?</para>
> > > +        </question>
> > > +
> > > +        <answer>
> > > +
> > > +          <para>The X Window System is the most popular windowing system
> > > +	    capable of running on UNIX or UNIX-like systems, including
> > 
> > 
> > 'the most popular' kind of rubs me the wrong way.  Is there any
> > proof that it is the most popular?  Polls or otherwise?  I know
> > that by default Solaris installs CDE which I don't think uses X in
> > any way.
> > 
> > NOTE: I have not powered up my Sun in weeks and I may be wrong
> > about this.
> 
> Saying 'only' instead of 'most popular' would probably wrong only on
> a technicality. 'most popular' is definatly true.  CDE is a desktop
> environment like KDE or Gnome minus the office suite.  It's just
> extreamly propriotary and thus dying. :-)

I should have said 'is XFree86' but oh well.  Thanks for the follow
up, and I retract my comment.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes