Re: We might need a better wording for our release page

Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:53:11 -0300

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Hi,

Em 20/12/2024 12:27, Richard Lewis escreveu:
> 
> The glossary is definitly better than the debian.org page, which uses
> "distribution" in a rather odd way "The stable distribution contains the
> latest officially released distribution of Debian."
> 
> I would find it clearer if "distribution" was only used to mean Debian,
> ie a "linux distro", which is how people describe it. Stable, testing,
> unstable, bookworm are vesions (i suppose "release" also works) of
> Debian.

It's very common to see "distribution" as "version" on debian.org

When we are translating to portuguese, we need to understand the context 
because distribuition can be "version" or "linux distro".

And "release" can be "version" too, or "release date" (in portuguese: 
data de lançamento).

Best regards,


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