Reasons why Red Hat 9 is feeble, #753

[simont]

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.)

Comments

[mooism.livejournal.com]

That’s cheating!

[simont]

Curses. Rumbled.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Cheating at word games does seem to be one of the primary uses of /u/s/d/w, doesn't it?

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Wot no xylophone?

[simont]

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.

Including, at least for me, "xerography's"

[benparker.livejournal.com]

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?

Re: Including, at least for me, "xerography's"

[ewx.livejournal.com]

"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".

[tackline.livejournal.com]

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.

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

FC3:

$ egrep '^x' /usr/share/dict/words  | wc -l
453
$