Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal For our opening page www.debian.org, I think we have too much emphasis on "GNU/Linux". Let's see:
| Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating | system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your | computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating | system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence | the name GNU/Linux. Since we have "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD", it should be written something along following options. Option 1: | Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating | system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your | computer run. Debian uses the Linux or FreeBSD kernel (the core of an | operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU | project; hence the name Debian GNU/Linux or Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. or with a shorter text (use OS and drop reference to Linux etc.). Option2: | Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An OS | is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer | run. Debian uses the DFSG compliant Free kernel (the core of an | OS) and the DFSG compliant Free OS tools. (Make sure to put link to DFSG.) This option 2 can handle future situation such as HURD. The next sentence: | Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over | 29000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for | easy installation on your machine. This can be started as | Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over | 29000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for | easy installation on your machine. Then the http://www.debian.org/intro/about can elaborate: | WHAT is Debian? | | The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common | cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we | have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. This can be changed as: | WHAT is Debian? | | The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common | cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we | have created is called Debian. | | Debian is sometimes called "Debian GNU/Linux" and "Debian | GNU/kFreeBSD" identifying the basic utility tools and system kernel | used. The English text proposed is just to indicate issues to be addressed. Please propose better text. Osamu -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
