Reasons why Red Hat 9 is feeble, #753 [entries|reading|network|archive]
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Mon 2006-03-13 10:37
Reasons why Red Hat 9 is feeble, #753

On my work machine, I've just discovered, /usr/share/dict/words contains no uncapitalised words beginning with ‘x’.

(Debian doesn't do much better, but Red Hat takes the cake.)

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[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.comMon 2006-03-13 11:42
That’s cheating!
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[personal profile] simontMon 2006-03-13 11:51
Curses. Rumbled.
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[identity profile] ptc24.livejournal.comMon 2006-03-13 11:55
Cheating at word games does seem to be one of the primary uses of /u/s/d/w, doesn't it?
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[identity profile] pjc50.livejournal.comMon 2006-03-13 12:07
Wot no xylophone?
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[personal profile] simontMon 2006-03-13 12:12
On Debian woody, the default /u/s/d/w (from wenglish-2.0-2) contains only "xylophone" and "xylophones". RH9's words-2-21 package really doesn't even have those.

Debian sarge (wamerican-5-4) manages more like sixteen words, and if you install the non-default miscfiles-1.3-2 you get a rather healthier 293.
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[identity profile] benparker.livejournal.comMon 2006-03-13 14:12
Including, at least for me, "xerography's"
Which intrigues me, one, as I don't know what xerography means (possibly the study of making photocopies), and two, how many times in the history of the world would anyone use xerography in the genitive?

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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.comTue 2006-03-14 08:38
Re: Including, at least for me, "xerography's"
"a dry copying process in which black or colored powder adheres to parts of a surface remaining electrically charged after being exposed to light from an image of the document to be copied".
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[identity profile] tackline.livejournal.comMon 2006-03-13 16:11

Reason why Red Hat 9 is feeble: dropped notify

Nothing is important after that. Or at least nothing I'm going to be awake for.

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[identity profile] deliberateblank.livejournal.comMon 2006-03-13 18:38
FC3: 
$ egrep '^x' /usr/share/dict/words  | wc -l
453
$

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