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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:16:21 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        bsdbeastie@arcor.de
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Handbook seems to contain an advertisement
Message-ID:  <20070327091621.GB6982@abigail.blackend.org>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:23:45AM +0200, bsdbeastie@arcor.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just browsed the FreeBSD manual a little bit and this section struck me as odd:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html
> X Window workstation: FreeBSD is a fine choice for an inexpensive X
> terminal solution, either using the freely available X11 server or
> one of the excellent commercial servers provided by Xi Graphics
> (link to xig.com).
> 
> I wonder if this  belongs into the FreeBSD handbook, since it
> advertises a commercial X distribution. xig.com also seems
> unreachable.
>

I can reach http://www.xig.com/; on another hand I don't see why we
should not mention Xi Graphics X11 distribution.  Commercial software is
not "evil" :)

-- 
Marc



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