Overview

• Me
• FLOSS - Freedoms and Open for use
• FLOSS eco system
• Debian - distro & community
• Customizing Debian
• Power & World Peace

Me

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

My trip to Asia

Asia trip

FLOSS

FLOSS == Free/Libre Open Source Software

FLOSS - Free Software

Free/Libre: Freedom Fighters wanting to share

• Liberate commons from bounds of competition
• Bind inventions from being used for competition

FLOSS - Open Source

Open Source: Business folks wanting to trade

• Liberate competition...

FLOSS

FLOSS == Free/Libre Open Source Software

Floss: Friendly cooperation between liberators and liberals

FLOSS - twists of words

• FLOSS: Free from some limits
• Hacker vs. Cracker

Free is costly and challenging

FLOSS parts

• (Hardware)
• Firmware
• Kernel (like "Linux")
• System tools
• Desktop elements
• Applications
• Translations
• Documentation
• Beautification

FLOSS people

• Hardcore technicians
• Simple technicians
• Data organizers
• Designers
• Politicians / Business folks
• Patient users
• Impatient users
• Testers (very patient users)
• Cheerleeders

FLOSS ecosystem

Software Code Stream

Debian - distro & community

• Distribution
• Community
• Free!

Debian - Universal Operating System

• Generic - choices are exposed to the user
• Mother of other distros
• Social and political project, not only technical - e.g. DFSG
• Strong structure, preferrably flat

Debian packages

• Packages = components
• Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)
• OpenOffice.org: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)
• Debian: ~30.000 packages

Improve Debian - work alone or join teams

• Peer review - many eyes see more bugs
• Education - Debian quality standards
• Ideals transfer - get help on packaging
• Working alone: http://mentors.debian.net/
• Joining teams: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams

Do better than Debian: derivatives

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

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?
• ...?

Suggestion: Join existing teams, and try use boxer...

Essentials

• Evil is an abstract
• Power corrupts
• Doing nothing → amplifyes corruption
• Life is fun (not serious)!

Avoid corruption of power: Be awake, Engage and Share!

The End

• Me:
• Debian: http://www.debian.org
• Debian Derivatives Census: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
• This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/bub
• Illustrations: http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/
• Asia trip: http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011