% 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
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
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 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