LWN: Comments on "Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader"

Hmph

a9db0 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:16:26 +0000

I'll Second!

Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader

jengelh — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:19:48 +0000

"There's always something that is worse to use than Debian."

Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader

kruemelmo — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:32:27 +0000

∃ would be ∃, the line was obviously supposed to read

Better: yes, ∃x : D > x

and i hope my attempt to publish this will not fail, too. Preview looks good though. :) Still I cannot understand the comment. oh well.

Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader

pauly — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:37:25 +0000

Jon + everyone,
take it easy. I have bundled my LWN and dict.leo.org bookmarks,
since every reading of LWN is an opportunity to enhance my English
thesaurus. Jon is a really skilled writer and does care for the language, most of his wordings simply hit the nail on the head. If just all online publications could keep up with that level of English ...

Martin

deb.li link

Bluehorn — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:45:52 +0000

Yes, that is the same site (or it should be, never went there via the deb.li URL).

deb.li link

geofft — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:54:28 +0000

The http://deb.li/rcbw link appears to be broken (in fact, the http://deb.li/ homepage is similarly unavailable). Is this the same content as http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/ ?

Hmph

nikanth — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:05:04 +0000

I propose the above comment for quotes of the week section. :)

Hmph

corbet — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:27:00 +0000

You try writing a coherent article shortly after a transoceanic trip and we'll see how "grammatical" you are...:)

Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader

freebird — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:40:16 +0000

For 'anymore' read 'lately' or 'nowadays'.
I have no idea how it crept into the language.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/anymore.html

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000187.htm

Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader

aliguori — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:35:10 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore

In other words, even the firmware shipped in Debian is free software these days.

Verbal bits from the Debian Project Leader

BenHutchings — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:12:22 +0000

"... even down to the firmware anymore."

This is ungrammatical and I'm not sure quite what it was supposed to say. I assume you meant to refer to the fact that all non-free firmware has been removed from the kernel. (It is mostly still available, but in separate packages in the non-free section.)

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jengelh — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:13:44 +0000

>other distributions release more often,

Fedora's release and version lifecycle surely is not without opposing opinions either.

>innovate more and have more users than Debian does. Also, somehow, those distributions seem to get more credit.

Have users, get credit and innovate. Pick two - you can't have all four. Something in that direction.. ;-)

>In this context, Stefano asked: is Debian still better, and is it still relevant? His answer was "yes" on both counts.

Better: yes, ∃x : D > x. (corbet, when's UTF input support coming?)
Relevant: yes, it's still being copied into another standalone distro.