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authorJonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>2011-10-20 09:41:38 +0530
committerJonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>2011-10-20 09:41:38 +0530
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% Debian Pure Blends
% Jonas Smedegaard
-% Khammam, October 20th, 2011
+% Sarada, Khammam, October 20th, 2011
# Overview
- * Debian is generic - Blends are specific
- * Purity: all is Debian
- * Why bother?
- * Technical details
- * Team, community, users
- * Future
+ * Internet
+ * Home
+ * Passion
+ * Trust
+ * Debian
+ * Debian Pure Blends
+
+# Internet
+
+Internet is our digital parallel World...
+
+# Home
+
+ * Where you are *safe*
+ * Where you can *store* goods
+ * Where you can *fumble* and experiment
+
+# Passion
+
+ >* Purpose
+ * Astronaut?
+ * Nuclear Scientist?
+
+# Passion
+
+ * ~~Purpose~~
+ * Passion!
+
+# Passion
+
+ * ~~Purpose~~
+ * Passions!
+
+# Trust
+
+ >* trust: feeling comfortable as guest in another home
+ * proper trust == mutual trust
+
+# Healthy environment
+
+ * everyone has a **home**
+ * everyone is driven by **passions**
+ * everyone finds mutual **trust** in some others
# Debian - the universal Operating System
+ * Free Software
* Stable
* Flexible
+ * very very big
-Debian is the universal Operating System.
+Debian is "the universal Operating System"
-Goal
- : Usable everywhere
+Goal: Usable everywhere
# Debian - very flexible...
@@ -32,28 +70,28 @@ Goal
* ~~Very flexible: very good~~
* Very flexible: very confusing!
-Debian is too flexible: confusing and to some even scary!
+Debian is maybe too flexible: confusing or even scary...
# Debian - ways to simplify
- 1. Keep things as-is - educate users instead
- 1. Remove choice
- 1. Provide multiple defaults
+ 1. Tolerate it: Use it as-is
+ 1. Remove choice: Use e.g. Ubuntu
+ 1. Use a Debian Pure Blend
# Debian - simple if generic defaults are ok
* Mainstream (but not too new) hardware
* GNOME desktop
- * Iceweasel web browser
+ * Iceweasel web browser (= Firefox)
* Exim MTA
* Apache web server
* MySQL database server
-Debian *is* simple - if you happen to like its defaults.
+Debian *is* simple - if you like the defaults.
# Debian Pure Blend - Debian for a specific purpose
-Debian Pure Blend (in short DDD): a subset of Debian configured to
+a subset of Debian configured to
support a particular target group out-of-the-box.
Goal 1
@@ -62,23 +100,6 @@ Goal 1
Goal 2
: Advertise this fact to the world to attract users and developers
-# Debian Pure Blend - technical parts
-
- * package selection(s)
- * customizations
-
-The concrete work to include as packages with official Debian.
-
-# Debian Pure Blend - reality parts
-
- * goals & noise about progress
- * package health + encourage additional software packaging
- * passion & patience
- * good relations with Debian package maintainers, competitors, and upstream authors
- * good relations with users
-
-Surrounding work making a Blend relevant.
-
# Debian Pure Blend - current blending projects
* Debian Jr
@@ -93,7 +114,10 @@ Surrounding work making a Blend relevant.
* Debian GIS
* Debian Multimedia
-Projects working on Blends - some pure, some not (yet)...
+# Deebian Pure Blends - future blends
+
+ * FreedomBox
+ * Debian LAN
# Debian Pure Blends - all Debian
@@ -106,7 +130,7 @@ DDD
# Debian Pure Blends - why bother?
-Nice on paper with ideals and priciples, but...
+Nice ideals and principles in theory, but...
What's in it for me?!?
@@ -123,24 +147,6 @@ What's in it for me?!?
* teamwork - others might help you refine and maintain your setups
* common structures - others might take over if you loose interest
-# Tech - Debian support overloading choices
-
- * Debian installer
- * tasksel
- * debconf
- * aptitude
-
-# Tech - examples of non-pure blending
-
- * include non-Debian packages or non-packaged stuff
- * include Debian packages from different Debian suite
- * configure system other than via Debian package installation
- * install using non-Debian media
-
-You don't own your system - you provide one for others to own.
-
-So don't refine it like a (sloppy) user: Handle it like a Debian developer!
-
# Tech - Debian, generic setup
* select package profile(s)
@@ -270,3 +276,17 @@ When all is in Debian, with no dirty tricks:
* APT explicit choice of alternate dependency/recommendation
* APT dontcare vs. explicit choice of default dependency/recommendation
* Config::Model - semantic configfile handling
+
+# Final words...
+
+Be **passionate**!
+
+**Share** your passion!
+
+# Final words...
+
+Be **passionate**!
+
+**Share** your passion!
+
+This talk: <http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/khammam/>