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  <h1 class="title">Debian and a healthy Free Software eco system</h1>

  <p class="author">

Jonas Smedegaard

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  <p class="date">SWECHA, Hyderabad, October 25th, 2011</p>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="overview">

<h1>Overview</h1>

<ul>

<li>FLOSS - <strong>Free</strong>doms and <strong>Open</strong> for use</li>

<li>FLOSS eco system</li>

<li>Debian - distro &amp; community</li>

<li>Customizing Debian</li>

<li>Power &amp; World Peace</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss">

<h1>FLOSS</h1>

<p><strong>FLOSS</strong> == <strong>F</strong>ree/<strong>L</strong>ibre <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>S</strong>ource <strong>S</strong>oftware</p>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss---free-software">

<h1>FLOSS - Free Software</h1>

<p>Free/Libre: Freedom Fighters wanting to <strong>share</strong></p>

<ul>

<li>Liberate commons from bounds of competition</li>

<li>Bind inventions from being used for competition</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss---open-source">

<h1>FLOSS - Open Source</h1>

<p>Open Source: Business folks wanting to <strong>trade</strong></p>

<ul>

<li>Liberate competition...</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-1">

<h1>FLOSS</h1>

<p><strong>FLOSS</strong> == <strong>F</strong>ree/<strong>L</strong>ibre <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>S</strong>ource <strong>S</strong>oftware</p>

<p>Floss: Friendly cooperation between liberators and liberals</p>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss---more-twists-of-words">

<h1>FLOSS - more twists of words</h1>

<ul>

<li>Free from <strong>some</strong> limits</li>

<li>Choice → Control → Power</li>

<li>(Lack of choice → Simplicity → Usability)</li>

</ul>

<p>Free is <strong>costly</strong> and <strong>challenging</strong></p>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-parts">

<h1>FLOSS parts</h1>

<ul>

<li>Hardware</li>

<li>Firmware</li>

<li>Kernel (like &quot;Linux&quot;)</li>

<li>System tools</li>

<li>Desktop elements</li>

<li>Applications</li>

<li>Translations</li>

<li>Documentation</li>

<li>Beautification</li>

</ul>

</div>

<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-people">

<h1>FLOSS people</h1>

<ul>

<li>Hardcore technicians</li>

<li>Simple technicians</li>

<li>Data organizers</li>

<li>Designers</li>

<li>Politicians / Business folks</li>

<li>Patient users</li>

<li>Impatient users</li>

<li>Testers (<strong>very</strong> patient users)</li>

<li>Cheerleeders</li>

</ul>

</div>

<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-parts-and-people">

<h1>FLOSS parts and people</h1>

<div class="figure">

<img src="../codestream.png" alt="Software Development Stream" /><p class="caption">Software Development Stream</p>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-eco-system">

<h1>FLOSS eco system</h1>

<div class="figure">

<img src="../developmentstream.png" alt="Software Code Stream" /><p class="caption">Software Code Stream</p>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---distro-community">

<h1>Debian - distro &amp; community</h1>

<ul>

<li>Distribution</li>

<li>Community</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---universal-operating-system">

<h1>Debian - Universal Operating System</h1>

<ul>

<li>Generic - choices are exposed to the user</li>

<li>Mother of other distros</li>

<li>Social and political project, not only technical - e.g. DFSG</li>

<li>Strong structure, preferrably flat</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-packages">

<h1>Debian packages</h1>

<ul>

<li>Packages = components</li>

<li>Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)</li>

<li>OpenOffice.org: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)</li>

<li>Debian: ~30.000 packages</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---mentors-sponsoring">

<h1>Debian - Mentors + sponsoring</h1>

<ul>

<li>Peer review - many eyes see more bugs</li>

<li>Education - Debian quality standards</li>

<li>Ideals transfer - get help on packaging</li>

<li>debian-mentors mailinglist</li>

<li>#debian-mentors IRC channel</li>

<li>http://mentors.debian.net/ site</li>

</ul>

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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---derivatives">

<h1>Debian - derivatives</h1>

<ul>

<li>Knoppix</li>

<li>Ubuntu</li>

<li>SWECHA</li>

</ul>

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