Moin,
* Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-16 15:20):
>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:
My mention of X11 was only a reaction to the mention of KDE, which is
based on X11. Like: It does not show <whatever>, because the book is
so old that even <whatever>'s base technology was non-existant.
>> (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.
Ok, saw it then. Just wanted to make sure.
Thorsten
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