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Bug#614233: marked as done (www.debian.org: Debian = "Debian GNU/Linux" + "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD")

Your message dated Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:56:43 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #614233,
regarding www.debian.org: Debian = "Debian GNU/Linux" + "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD"
to be marked as done.

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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

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--- Begin Message --- 
During the web team sprint we also talked about mentioning kfreebsd
and hurd on the home page. We came to the conclusion not to mention
these but to mention Linux with the new layout of the home page.
-- 
regards Thomas

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