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Comment by dongsheng | Hacker News Reader

> Various distros have official Chinese translations.

  Debian -> 大便
  Ubuntu -> 俺不土
  Gentoo -> 真土

While I don't know about Chinese, in Japanese 大 means 'large' and 便 can be read as 'faeces'.

So perhaps the name for Debian in Chinese is actually "big poo".

Bingo!

Yep, just a joke people made to laugh at the pronunciation of Debian is the same as "big poo" in chinese, but we love Debian of course ;)

Here is a Chinese browser name:

Maxthon - 马桶

Debian... 哈哈哈!