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% Debian and a healthy Free Software eco system % Jonas Smedegaard % College of Science, Syiah Kuala University, December 2st, 2011

Overview

  • Me
  • FLOSS
  • Debian - distro & community
  • Debian - the larger FLOSS eco system
  • Customizing Debian - derive vs. blend

Me - Asia

Asia trip

Me - Making a living

FLOSS

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.

Debian - distro & community

  • Community
  • Distribution
  • Freedoms!

Debian - Community

  • Democracy

Debian - Community

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

Debian - Community facts

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

Debian - Distribution

  • Bound by Debian Policy
  • Generic - choices are exposed to the user
  • Mother of other distros

The Universal Operating System

Debian - Distribution

  • 9+ hardware architectures
  • 2+ kernels
  • 35000+ software packages

FLOSS Eco System

Software Code Stream

Help maintain Debian - alone or in teams

Do better than Debian: derive

  • Knoppix
  • Ubuntu
  • BOSS
  • SWECHA
  • BlankOn
  • ...

Suggestion: Use live-builder...

Do better than deriving Debian: blend

  • 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 Pure Blend - the complex simple

  • Debian is flexible: provides choices
  • Derivatives often simpler: removes choices
  • Blends are ethically simple: preserves choices

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