-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:56:00PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >Le Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:33:30PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:45:37PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >Le Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:10:55AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : >> >> >> >> If someone can find official Debian definition of "Debian distribution" >> >> >I would just suggest to us "Debian operating system" instead. >> >> Why do you suggest this different one?
>I suggest it because : > > - The front page of www.debian.org says "Debian is a free operating > system (OS) for your computer." > > - www.debian.org/releases then introduces the three "distributions" of > Debian, Stable (released), Testing (queue for next stable), and > Unstable (development). Using "Debian OS" instead of "Debian > distribution" suppresses the question : "Which distribution?" > > - It distinguishes Debian as a software from Debian as a group of > people or Debian as an infrastructure. (But this is less relevant to > this discussion). Thanks. I dislike your proposal, as it is too vague IMO for what I want CDD definition to really define. For more on what I want to define, see my other recent post today in response to Andreas - the one with the ASCII art. But your post helped me think again about the terms I used. :-) Kind regards, - 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) iD8DBQFH/g5Cn7DbMsAkQLgRAkPvAJ9oTbRfraS8KI9FpOjn3DZqD1WvgwCgp2P0 Ybdz5/bjWVGk+ze71cVrV6g= =+f0u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
