Hi there! Please do not Cc: me, I read the list.
NB, this will be my last "contribute" to the subject. On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:01:40 +0200, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 12/09/11 05:52 AM, Luca Capello wrote: >> No flame, please, this is a fair question. >> >> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:15:51 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >>> +<p>The most common way to copy an image to a USB flash drive is to >>> use +the <q>dd</q> command on a Linux machine:</p> >> ^^^^^ Are these informations the same for other Unixes, i.e. Debian >> GNU/kFreeBSD? Then the above should be corrected to reflect that. > > The most common way *is* to use a Linux machine. It's a bald statement > of fact. There is no need to complicate this statement for the sake of > inclusiveness. I do not think that adding Linux/Unix is a complication by itself. dd is included in coreutils, which is available in other Unixes as well. >> Please note that in any case I would correct that, we still call it >> Debian GNU/Linux and not simply Linux: > > I know when we refer to Debian itself, we say "Debian GNU/Linux" or > simply "Debian". But I don't know what our editorial policy is when we > refer to Linux in the broadest sense. Do we really need to be this > pedantic here? While my POV differs from yours [1], being consistent has nothing to do with being pedantic, please see the other links Raf reported for CD burning: <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20110911090651.GA21763%40linuxstuff.pl> <http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix> I fully agree that we need a policy, but once this will exist, we should stick with that. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca [1] again, please no flame, but technically speaking there is *no* broadest sense for the term "Linux" and given that we share more with GNU than with any other F/LOSS project I see a point in being called GNU/Linux <http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/09/msg00004.html>
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