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% Debian Pure Blends % Jonas Smedegaard % Trunojoyo University, Madura, November 22th, 2011

Overview

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

Me

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

Software Code Stream

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

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