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** Be very careful about who you talk to. Most other distros' users will get a bit irritated with you if you call the kernel GNU/Linux. Some Debian users do too. For further clarification this goes back to a very old argument between Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman over who should get credit for free operating systems.
* Call Microcomputers such as the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and the Amiga "PCs" in front of Microcomputer fans.
* It's the [[X BoxXbox]]. It's just one word, normally capitalized. Not XBox, XBOX, X-box, X-Box, or xBox. The name comes from [[Direct X]]; When Microsoft was creating it, it was codenamed the [[Direct X]] Box, or [[Direct Xbox]], and when they were trying to come up with a cool name for it, someone realized "Why don't we just use it as it is?".
 
 
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