Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:19:37 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Well Educated" <nospam@nospam.nospam.net>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: typo in FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc Message-ID: <004201c208b6$95081480$93ec910c@daleco> References: <3CF78D95.C96C85D1@nospam.nospam.net>
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From: "Well Educated" <nospam@nospam.nospam.net>
To: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: typo in FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc
> "X Windows" - what is it, "XP Windows" or "Windows XP" maybe?
> Let's use true terms to the things.
In spite of the fact that "Well-Educated" [1] doesn't seem to be so
and nospam.net doesn't seem to be "no-spam," [2] here's an
answer:
X is not the first window system written for Unix, but it is the
most popular. X's original development team had worked on
another window system before writing X. That system's name
was ``W'' (for ``Window''). X is just the next letter in the
Roman alphabet.
X can be called ``X'', ``X Window System'', ``X11'', and
other terms. Calling X11 ``X Windows'' can offend some
people; see X(1) for a bit more insight on this.
---FreeBSD Handbook, Ch. 5.2.1[3]
Now I could be wrong about [1] and [2] but [3] seems spot
on. Also, a recent thread on one of the lists addressed this
issue. So, Jacques accidentally touched the "s" key, is it really
worth complaining about?
KDK
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