Re: Developers who write Debian GNU/Linux when they mean Debian.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > > Being a little pedantic. "for _a_ Debian system"
> >
> > That'd be an individual system running Debian. I write man pages for
> > *the* Debian system, that is the project as a whole.
> >
> > Am I misunderstanding you here?
> >
> A little. I would want to say that you are writing man pages for Debian.
> However, there are two Debian systems, Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian
> GNU/Linux. The Debian man pages will be used by both systems, however a
> man page will be read exclusively on one or the other system at any one
> time. Fully pedantic "for a Debian GNU/Hurd or a Debian GNU/Linux
> system". Nasty. So hence my suggestion, "for a Debian system".
Hrm... We could get particular and nail down some things.
We could say:
The Debian Project -- to encompass the entire effort
A Debian system -- a machine that runs an operating system built by
the Debian Project.
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