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

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

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:
• 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