question about xwindows

Alphons "Fonz" van Werven a.j.werven at student.utwente.nl
Sun Feb 17 13:40:53 UTC 2008


Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> first of all, you used that bad letter. Just call it X. Never add an s 
>> at the end of the other word. Some people are real allergic to this.

> no allergic, just matter of proper naming. X Window System is not a kind 
> of windows.
> 
> KDE is not a kind of X Window System too..

Oh come on people...

Someone new to UNIX asks about adding a printer and in response we start
bickering about the above? What kind of arrogant, know-it-all pedants must
the OP think we are?

Alphons

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