blends/talk/sanata.mkd



% Debian Pure Blends
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Sanata Dharma University, Malioboro, November 24th, 2011
Overview

Me and Asia
Tricky terms
FLOSS Eco System
Debian - distro & community
Customizing Debian - derive vs. blend
Examples of Debian blends

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 http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/

Me and Asia

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

Debian - distro & community

Community
Distribution
Freedoms!

Debian - Community

~1000 official "Developers"
??? unofficial packagers, translators, documentors, bug-fixers...

Debian - Community structure

Democracy

Debian - Community structure

~~Democracy~~
Bound by Debian Social Contract
Each passionate maintainer is responsible

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
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
BlankOn
...

Suggestion: Use live-builder...
Debian - blends

Optimizing Debian itself for special purpose use

or

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?
BlankOn?
...?

Suggestion: Join existing teams, and try use boxer...
Skolelinux/DebianEdu - a Debian Pure Blend

All tools needed to administrate a school
All tools needed to teach on a school
Minimal needs to be technical (= more time to teach)

FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend


Your personal Butler


Your personal spy
A Debian Blend
A Debian Pure Blend
First get dirty, then purify

Essentials

Evil is only an abstract (no entity), but power corrupts
Doing nothing amplifies bad actions of others!
Life is fun (not serious)!

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

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