path: root/blends/talk/vanlang.mkd

% Debian Blends: Make your own "blended" distribution
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Văn Lang, Hồ Chí Minh City / Saigon, November 11th, 2011
Overview

Me and Asia
Debian - the Universal Operating System
Customizing Debian - deriving and blending

Me

Jonas Smedegaard
One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas
Kaospilot University http://kaospilot.dk/
Børneuniversitetet http://borneuni.dk/
DGI-huset http://dgi-huset.dk/
Københavns Delebiler http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/

Me and Asia

Debian - the Universal Operating System

Community
Distribution
Freedoms!

Debian - Community

~1000 "Developers"
??? Maintainers, translators, documentors, bug-fixers...

Debian - Community structure

Democracy

Debian - Community structure

~~Democracy~~
Bound by Debian Social Contract
Responsibility at each passionate maintainer

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
FLOSS Eco System

Customizing Debian - deriving and blending


Derive: Hacking with your face away from Debian



Blend: Hacking with you face towards Debian
Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!

Ways to help

Install Debian and explore it - fail alot!
Join teams - mailinglists, wiki, irc
Share - frustrations, passions, ideas, work

The End

Me: dr@jones.dk
This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/vanlang
Illustration: http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/
Asia trip: http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011
Debian: http://www.debian.org
Debian Pure Blends: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends