Switching from Windows

[Karl Goetz]

Jordan Mantha wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:23 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>>
>>> This brings up an issue that occurred to me as I was writing the
>>> packaging guide. I want to write in a neutral way as much as possible.
>>> The question that came to mind is how should refer to "Ubuntu the
>>> umbrella" as opposed to "Ubuntu the Gnome-based version". I tend to
>>> use Ubuntu in the umbrella meaning, mostly since I'm a MOTU and it is
>>> all the same repo to me. If I want to refer to something specific to
>>> Gnome I tend to use "Gnome" but I'm not sure if that is confusing to
>>> new users (I imagine it would be). What do you guys think about making
>>> a distinction in our terminology (maybe it is already there and I
>>> missed it)
>> I think that for the immediate future Ubuntu _is_ using the gnome
>> desktop not kde. So only if something is kde specific should that be
>> mentioned.
>>
>> I hope I'm not going to start seeing references to how to do things in
>> kde in the ubuntu docs. When/if Canonical gives _official_ support for
>> Kubuntu then that's a whole different story.
> 
> Umm, the "official" doc team ships "official" Kubuntu docs. The
> Packaging Guide certainly references Kubuntu as it is something that
> packagers should certainly be aware of. I'd like to be able to talk
> about Ubuntu (the project/distro) which includes Kubuntu, Ubuntu,
> Edubuntu, Xubuntu in a general sense but just saying "Ubuntu" might
> seem like I'm excluding Kubuntu, et. al.  Is that a general feeling?
> 
> -Jordan
> 

Wouldn't a note to the effect of "During the packaging guide all Ubuntu
based distributions will be referred to as "Ubuntu"" clear up the
problem a bit? Since they all share the repositories and build process
to me its fine to call it all ubuntu.
kk

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Karl Goetz
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