add a note for translators regarding "loading linux kernel" message
Bug #221550 reported by
Przemek K.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gfxboot-
There is something that many translators translate wrong. In the livecd bootloader, upon entering Try Ubuntu there is a briefly displayed string "Loading Linux kernel" which many translators translate as "Loading Linux's kernel" (Loading kernel of Linux) which is wrong, because Linux doesn't have a kernel, Linux _is the kernel_. So the string should be translated to mean "Loading kernel named Linux" rather than "Loading kernel of Linux".
gfxboot-
Alternatively, the message could be shortened to just "Loading..." or removed at all.
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This is going to open a big can of worms about whether people mean the kernel when they say "Linux" (hence why the FSF ask you to say GNU/Linux to describe the whole thing) or whether it's legitimate to use "Linux" to mean the whole thing. It's a rather politicised question.