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   Eli the Bearded to usteen@asdf.fi   
   Re: tux penguin   
   08 May 15 22:28:44   
   
   From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In alt.anagrams, Lardy Girl   wrote:   
   > Sorry.  By way of apology, a better 'gram I noticed during that   
   > process:   
   >   I peg nun:   
   >   'Penguin!'   
      
   That's an amusing find.   
      
   I wrote:   
   >> likes X, actually   
   > Understandable, since it's the _second_ worst windowing system...   
      
   The confusion for most people is X11 is just a windowing system, but   
   the WM (the window manager UI) is a user-selectable add-on. But I know   
   of more than X11/OSX/ Windows windowing systems.   
      
   > It works well enough, at least for the stuff that matters:   
   >   'The X window system' =   
   >   I'd show my news text.   
      
   Like NEWS was a Postscript derived system used on NeXT computers.   
      
       'The X window system' =   
        Hosted sexy twin WM   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   Sexy thin stem wow'd   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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