On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Thorsten Haude said > Hi, > > * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): > >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said > >> * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): > >> >Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. > >> > >> The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of! > > > >I haven't read the book under discussion, but this seems rather odd. > >How does X enter into systems administration or Unix programming at all, > >aside from the obvious? > > It enters right before the KDE mentioned above. Huh? That makes even less sense than the original message did. Let me re-phrase: "What on earth does X have to do with Unix systems administration and programming?" > (What is the obvious?) Configuring X itself is obviously a X-related systems administration task, and programming X apps is obviously a X-related Unix administration task. General administration and programming are NOT X-related in any way, however. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: USDOJ BLU-114/B Steve Case Qaddafi enforcers Iraq White House
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