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  <h1 class="title">Debian Pure Blends</h1>
  <p class="author">
Jonas Smedegaard
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  <p class="date">IISC, Bangalore, November 4th, 2011</p>
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<h1 id="overview">Overview</h1>
<ul>
<li>Me and Asia</li>
<li>Tricky terms</li>
<li>FLOSS Eco System</li>
<li>Debian - distro &amp; community</li>
<li>Customizing Debian - deriving and blending</li>
<li>FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="me">Me</h1>
<ul>
<li>Jonas Smedegaard</li>
<li>One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas</li>
<li>Sysadmin at Kaospilot University <a href="http://kaospilot.dk/"><code class="url">http://kaospilot.dk/</code></a></li>
<li>Sysadmin at Børneuniversitetet <a href="http://borneuni.dk/"><code class="url">http://borneuni.dk/</code></a></li>
<li>Sysadmin at DGI-huset <a href="http://dgi-huset.dk/"><code class="url">http://dgi-huset.dk/</code></a></li>
<li>Sysadmin + webmaster at Københavns Delebiler <a href="http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/"><code class="url">http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/</code></a></li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="me-and-asia">Me and Asia</h1>
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<img src="../map.png" alt="Asia trip" /><p class="caption">Asia trip</p>
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<h1 id="tricky-terms">Tricky terms</h1>
<p>FLOSS: <strong>F</strong>ree/<strong>L</strong>ibre <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>S</strong>ource <strong>S</strong>oftware.</p>
<p>Hacking: Being creative with small pieces -- like playing with Lego.</p>
<p>Cracking: Breaking digital &quot;locks&quot;, typically to steal digital data.</p>
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<h1 id="floss-eco-system">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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<h1 id="debian---distro-community">Debian - distro &amp; community</h1>
<ul>
<li>Community</li>
<li>Distribution</li>
<li>Free!</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian---community">Debian - Community</h1>
<ul>
<li>~1000 &quot;Developers&quot;</li>
<li>~500 &quot;Maintainers&quot;</li>
<li>??? actual contributors...</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian---community-structure">Debian - Community structure</h1>
<ul>
<li>Democracy</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian---community-structure-1">Debian - Community structure</h1>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Democracy</span></li>
<li>We all obey Debian Free Software Guidelines</li>
<li>Almost no hierarchy: Each package maintainer responsible</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian---distribution">Debian - Distribution</h1>
<ul>
<li>Generic - choices are exposed to the user</li>
<li>Mother of other distros</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian-packages">Debian packages</h1>
<ul>
<li>They all obey Debian Policy</li>
<li>Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)</li>
<li>LibreOffice: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)</li>
<li>Debian: ~35.000 packages</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="improve-debian---work-alone-or-join-teams">Improve Debian - work alone or join teams</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>Working alone: <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/"><code class="url">http://mentors.debian.net/</code></a></li>
<li>Joining teams: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams"><code class="url">http://wiki.debian.org/Teams</code></a></li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="do-better-than-debian-derivatives">Do better than Debian: derivatives</h1>
<ul>
<li>Knoppix</li>
<li>Ubuntu</li>
<li>BOSS</li>
<li>SWECHA</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
<p>Suggestion: Use <strong>live-builder</strong>...</p>
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<h1 id="debian---blends">Debian - blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>Optimizing Debian itself for special purpose use</li>
</ul>
<p>or</p>
<ul>
<li>Merging back derived work into Debian</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian---deriving-vs.-blending">Debian - deriving vs. blending</h1>
<p>Deriving: hacking with your face away from Debian</p>
<p>Blending: Hacking with you face towards Debian</p>
<p>Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!</p>
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<h1 id="debian---existing-blends">Debian - existing blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>Debian Jr</li>
<li>Debian Med</li>
<li>Debian Edu</li>
<li>Debian Science</li>
<li>Debian EzGo</li>
<li>BrDesktop</li>
<li>Debian Accessibility</li>
<li>Debian Lex</li>
<li>DebiChem</li>
<li>Debian GIS</li>
<li>Debian Multimedia</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="debian---future-blends">Debian - future blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>FreedomBox</li>
<li>Debian LAN</li>
<li>BOSS?</li>
<li>SWECHA?</li>
<li>...?</li>
</ul>
<p>Suggestion: Join existing teams, and try use <strong>boxer</strong>...</p>
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<h1 id="freedombox">FreedomBox</h1>
<ul class="incremental">
<li>Your personal Butler</li>
<li>Your personal spy</li>
<li>A Debian Blend</li>
<li>A Debian <strong>Pure</strong> Blend</li>
<li>First get dirty, then purify</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="essentials">Essentials</h1>
<ul>
<li>Evil is an abstract</li>
<li>Power corrupts</li>
<li>Doing nothing amplifies corruption</li>
<li>Life is fun (not serious)!</li>
</ul>
<p>Avoid corruption of power: Be <strong>awake</strong>, <strong>Engage</strong> and <strong>Share</strong>!</p>
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<h1 id="the-end">The End</h1>
<ul>
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<li>Debian: <a href="http://www.debian.org"><code class="url">http://www.debian.org</code></a></li>
<li>Debian Derivatives Census: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census"><code class="url">http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census</code></a></li>
<li>This talk: <a href="http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/iis"><code class="url">http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/iis</code></a></li>
<li>Illustrations: <a href="http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/"><code class="url">http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/</code></a></li>
<li>Asia trip: <a href="http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011"><code class="url">http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011</code></a></li>
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