From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 31 8: 2:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-card5-0-cust12.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.3.216.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB2837B406 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 08:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17Dnv8-000Dvb-00; Fri, 31 May 2002 16:02:26 +0100 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:02:26 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Well Educated Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Nils Holland Subject: Re: typo in FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc Message-ID: <20020531150226.GA35413@submonkey.net> References: <3CF79D89.6A5FF823@nospam.nospam.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CF79D89.6A5FF823@nospam.nospam.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:58:01PM +0200, Well Educated wrote: > >> "X Windows" - what is it, "XP Windows" or "Windows XP" maybe? > >> Let's use true terms to the things. > > > > Hmm, I've never been someone who likes endless debates about small bits and > > pieces which have no effect at all on, well, anything. In context of the > > Security Advisory, I don't think that writing "X Windows" instead of "X" or > > "X Window System" introduces a security hole, or makes it hard to > > understand what the Advisory is talking about. Therefore, I guess most > > people have better things to do than to worry about this one... > > I didn't say it introduces any security hole or understanding obstacle. But the term "X Windows" > just shows crass ignorance of people that use it. Insted of making flames, the typo can be simply > corrected. Perhaps it would be best if you told us exactly what you think it refers to so that we can correct you. "X Windows" is not really a typo, although I have witnessed holy wars where people insisted it should be "X Window". It's certainly nothing to do with XP. Now who's showing crass ignorance ? Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message