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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!news.onramp.net!newshost.cyberramp.net!excalibur.flash.net!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news3.crl.com!nntp3.crl.com!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2. ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to start XFree86 ? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 00:45:04 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <CC66192E0E1F7CF3.433FC81427893DB6.1D1B7342F0DE86D7@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <33927A00.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <338d17f8.13929803@news.dowco.com> <5mmhlm$1og$2@rabbit.augusta.de> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Andreas Kohout <shanee@rabbit.augusta.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42170 Andreas Kohout wrote: > > In article <338d17f8.13929803@news.dowco.com>, > randys@dowco.com (Randy Shepherd) writes: > > > Hi I'm new to UNIX and BSD. I want to start x-windows but don't know > > first of all, itīs called Xwindow, X11 or only X (no trailing īs :-) Actually, it's *never* called "Xwindow" - the full and proper name is "The X Window System" (as per Gettys and Scheiffler). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.