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  Re: cdimage?? What should we call it? Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2015-08-18 18:20 +0200
    Re: cdimage?? What should we call it? "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2015-08-18 19:20 +0200
      Re: cdimage?? What should we call it? Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2015-08-19 00:30 +0200

#45470 — Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:

> We called our main installer images distribution site
> cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and
> most people downloaded images of CDs. Ummm. Things have moved on in
> the intervening years, and this name is looking more silly over time:

>  * lots of people are using USB sticks
>  * we're providing live images that don't fit on CD
>  * we're providing cloud images (Openstack so far, with others coming
>    soon!)

> So, I'm looking for suggestions. What should we call it? I had
> initially thought that images.debian.org is more generic, but it's
> also likely to confuse people into looking there for pictures... :-)

install.debian.org?  (get.debian.org is good too.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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#45478

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:19:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
> 
> > We called our main installer images distribution site
> > cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and
> > most people downloaded images of CDs. Ummm. Things have moved on in
> > the intervening years, and this name is looking more silly over time:

Of course please keep the alias for those of us who have typed it for
years and no longer think about it.

> >  * lots of people are using USB sticks
> >  * we're providing live images that don't fit on CD
> >  * we're providing cloud images (Openstack so far, with others coming
> >    soon!)
> 
> > So, I'm looking for suggestions. What should we call it? I had
> > initially thought that images.debian.org is more generic, but it's
> > also likely to confuse people into looking there for pictures... :-)
> 
> install.debian.org?  (get.debian.org is good too.)

installer.debian.org?

-- 
Len Sorensen

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#45484

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:19:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
>> 
>> > We called our main installer images distribution site
>> > cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and
>> > most people downloaded images of CDs. Ummm. Things have moved on in
>> > the intervening years, and this name is looking more silly over time:
>
>Of course please keep the alias for those of us who have typed it for
>years and no longer think about it.

Of course - I should have added that to my first email. We also don't
want to break any existing setups.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of
 course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds

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