Re: proofreading the installation-guide

2015-08-07 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Justin B Rye wrote: > >> So all cases of &releasename-cap; in the English text are mistakes. > >> Really if it's only for use in German we should have called it > >> &Veroeffentlichungsname;! > > > > No, it's not just for German! > > It gives _all_ translators the possibility, to spell the r

Re: proofreading the installation-guide

2015-08-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Samuel Thibault wrote: > On to spending some time on answering this... Well, you may have noticed I'm rather taking the long view on actually getting started on stage one. > Justin B Rye: >> First, the deep-rooted termininological issues that I'd prefer to have >> sane answers for before I start

Re: proofreading the installation-guide

2015-08-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Holger Wansing wrote: > Justin B Rye wrote: So all cases of &releasename-cap; in the English text are mistakes. Really if it's only for use in German we should have called it &Veroeffentlichungsname;! >>> >>> No, it's not just for German! >>> It gives _all_ translators the possibil

Re: proofreading the installation-guide

2015-08-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justin B Rye, le Fri 07 Aug 2015 15:52:00 +0100, a écrit : > It's not immediately obvious why we're going to the trouble of > distinguishing from (along with , > , , and who knows what else). I'm sure it's all > lovely and semantic, but all we actually want is for them to be > flagged as verbati

Re: proofreading the installation-guide

2015-08-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Justin B Rye, le Fri 07 Aug 2015 15:52:00 +0100, a écrit : >> It's not immediately obvious why we're going to the trouble of >> distinguishing from (along with , >> , , and who knows what else). I'm sure it's all >> lovely and semantic, but all we actually want is for th

Installing Debian

2015-08-07 Thread Abe Sternberg
Folks - I admit that I am a complete dolt. I have read the Installation HowTo for Debian twice and am still baffled at how to download and install. First, I plan on installing Debian on a laptop that is currently running Windows 7 and I am not interesting keeping both operating systems. I am

Re: Installing Debian

2015-08-07 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Abe Sternberg wrote on 2015-08-07 11:54: > I am completely unfamiliar with Linux, Bit torrent, or using iso files > and don't understand any of the shop talk about how to download and > install. I have sent e-mails to two of the sites that are supposed to > provide CDs/DVDs but no one has resp