Debian and a healthy Free Software eco system

+Jonas Smedegaard +

Bangalore University, Bangalore, November 4th, 2011

Overview

Me
FLOSS - Freedoms and Open for use
FLOSS eco system
Debian - distro & community
Customizing Debian
Power & World Peace

Me

Jonas Smedegaard
One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas
Sysadmin at Kaospilot University http://kaospilot.dk/
Sysadmin at Børneuniversitetet http://borneuni.dk/
Sysadmin at DGI-huset http://dgi-huset.dk/
Sysadmin + webmaster at Københavns Delebiler

My trip to Asia

Asia trip

FLOSS

FLOSS == Free/Libre Open Source Software

FLOSS - Free Software

Free/Libre: Freedom Fighters wanting to share

Liberate commons from bounds of competition
Bind inventions from being used for competition

FLOSS - Open Source

Open Source: Business folks wanting to trade

Liberate competition...

FLOSS

FLOSS == Free/Libre Open Source Software

Floss: Friendly cooperation between liberators and liberals

FLOSS - twists of words

FLOSS: Free from some limits
Hacker vs. Cracker

Free is costly and challenging

FLOSS parts

(Hardware)
Firmware
Kernel (like "Linux")
System tools
Desktop elements
Applications
Translations
Documentation
Beautification

FLOSS people

Hardcore technicians
Simple technicians
Data organizers
Designers
Politicians / Business folks
Patient users
Impatient users
Testers (very patient users)
Cheerleeders

FLOSS ecosystem

Software Code Stream

Debian - distro & community

Distribution
Community
Free!

Debian - Universal Operating System

Generic - choices are exposed to the user
Mother of other distros
Social and political project, not only technical - e.g. DFSG
Strong structure, preferrably flat

Debian packages

Packages = components
Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)
OpenOffice.org: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)
Debian: ~30.000 packages

Improve Debian - work alone or join teams

Peer review - many eyes see more bugs
Education - Debian quality standards
Ideals transfer - get help on packaging
Working alone: http://mentors.debian.net/
Joining teams: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams

Do better than Debian: derivatives

Knoppix
Ubuntu
BOSS
SWECHA
...

Suggestion: Use live-builder...

Debian - blends

Optimizing Debian itself for special purpose use

Merging back derived work into Debian

Debian - deriving vs. blending

Deriving: hacking with your face away from Debian

Blending: Hacking with you face towards Debian

Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!

Debian - existing blends

Debian Jr
Debian Med
Debian Edu
Debian Science
Debian EzGo
BrDesktop
Debian Accessibility
Debian Lex
DebiChem
Debian GIS
Debian Multimedia

Debian - future blends

FreedomBox
Debian LAN
BOSS?
SWECHA?
...?

Suggestion: Join existing teams, and try use boxer...

Essentials

Evil is an abstract
Power corrupts
Doing nothing → amplifyes corruption
Life is fun (not serious)!

Avoid corruption of power: Be awake, Engage and Share!

The End

Me:
Debian: http://www.debian.org
Debian Derivatives Census: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/bub
Illustrations: http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/
Asia trip: http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011

Debian Pure Blends

+Jonas Smedegaard +

IISC, Bangalore, November 4rd, 2011

Overview

Me and Asia
Tricky terms
FLOSS Eco System
Debian - distro & community
Customizing Debian - deriving and blending
FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend

Me

Jonas Smedegaard
One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas
Sysadmin at Kaospilot University http://kaospilot.dk/
Sysadmin at Børneuniversitetet http://borneuni.dk/
Sysadmin at DGI-huset http://dgi-huset.dk/
Sysadmin + webmaster at Københavns Delebiler

Me and Asia

Asia trip

Tricky terms

FLOSS: Free/Libre Open Source Software.

Hacking: Being creative with small pieces -- like playing with Lego.

Cracking: Breaking digital "locks", typically to steal digital data.

FLOSS Eco System