-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:31:08PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Maybe it would be wise to introduce a new term, for Debian based >> distributions, which are not CDDs according to our definition. That >> would prevent us from using "(official) CDDs" and unoffical ones. So >> I suggest DBD (Debian Based Distributions) for those :-) What do you >> think? > > I think we should find a new name for what is currently called CDD and > it desperately needs the term "internal" in the name. Anything else > is missinterpreted
I fully agree. I also suggest avoiding "custom" - Debian itself is customizable, CDDs just automate what must already be possible within the distro. Perhaps squeeze in "subset", "slice", "fraction" or similar - to emphasize relationship. A verbal test that I would like to pass is that it should feel natural to mention the term in same sentence as the main Debian Distribution. A concrete suggestion: Formal name when presented alone: Debian internal subdistribution Name when directly together with Debian: internal sibdistribution Relaxed name: subdistro Test: "We are proud to release the next stable release of the Debian distribution, including the internal subdistributions Debian-med, - -junior and -edu". Another test (hinting at how I believe Skolelinux ought to do): "We are proud to release the next stable snapshot of Debian-Edu, the internal subdistribution based purely on Debian GNU/Linux. This snapshot is based on the stable release of Debian (codename Etch), with a few hand-picked packages from the testing (Lenny) area". - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH8k1rn7DbMsAkQLgRAoCKAJ0a7jyD6vU3NKmIEfkXZdXpJSEYmwCgp5Zo EWyOWDZEy2OrJ4Xxdgr9XxI= =rDYi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
