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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
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
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
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!
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