% Debian Blends: Make your own "blended" distribution
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Văn Lang, Hồ Chí Minh City / Saigon, November 11th, 2011

# Overview

 * Me and Asia
 * Debian - the Universal Operating System
 * Customizing Debian - deriving and blending

# Me

 * Jonas Smedegaard
 * One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas
 * Kaospilot University <http://kaospilot.dk/>
 * Børneuniversitetet <http://borneuni.dk/>
 * DGI-huset <http://dgi-huset.dk/>
 * Københavns Delebiler <http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/>

# Me and Asia

![Asia trip](../map.png)

# Debian - the Universal Operating System

 * Community
 * Distribution
 * Freedoms!

# Debian - Community

 * ~1000 "Developers"
 * ??? Maintainers, translators, documentors, bug-fixers...

# Debian - Community structure

 * Democracy

# Debian - Community structure

 * ~~Democracy~~
 * Bound by **Debian Social Contract**
 * Responsibility at each passionate maintainer

# Debian - Distribution

 * 9+ hardware architectures
 * 2+ kernels
 * 35000+ software packages

# Debian - Distribution

 * Bound by **Debian Policy**
 * Generic - choices are exposed to the user
 * Mother of other distros

The Universal Operating System

# FLOSS Eco System

![Software Code Stream](../developmentstream.png)

# Customizing Debian - deriving and blending

 >* Derive: Hacking with your face away from Debian
 * Blend: Hacking with you face towards Debian
 * Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!

# Ways to help

 * Install Debian and **explore** it - fail alot!
 * Join teams - mailinglists, wiki, irc
 * **Share** - frustrations, passions, ideas, work

# The End

 * Me: <dr@jones.dk>
 * This talk: <http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/vanlang>
 * Illustration: <http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/>
 * Asia trip: <http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011>
 * Debian: <http://www.debian.org>
 * Debian Pure Blends: <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends>