Re: custom vs. derivative
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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
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