Nov 5, 2004

19+9 slides

Enrico Zini (enrico@debian.org)

Otavio Salvador (otavio@debian.org)

Distribuições Personalizadas Debian

Um sistema para dominação total mundial

What we'll be talking about

What are Custom Debian Distributions

A future Custom Debian Distribution

How to make a Custom Debian Distribution

Debian-BR-CDD: an existing Custom Debian Distribution

Definition of CDD

Custom Debian Distributions: distributions derived from Debian which are still 100% Debian

(successful revolutions need simple ideas)

CDD HOWTO

Take Debian

Select Packages

Configure Packages

Rule the world

Aim at being 100% policy compliant

If you need special software, package it in Debian

If you need special configurations, work with maintainers

If you need stable software, fix bugs and submit patches to the BTS

If you need translations, work with Debian translators

If you need security, work with the Debian security team

(when it works like this, the World Takeover is complete)

Why it works

(for the smart people among you who aren't blindly trusting me yet)

You can make your systems...

Progeny

Xandros

Lindows

Ubuntu

Debian-Edu

Libertade

LinEx

Morphix

Knoppix

Debian-Med

Debian-NP

AGNULA

Impi

Adamantix

[this place is for you!]

Debian-BR-CDD

...all together inside Debian!

Progeny

Xandros

Lindows

Ubuntu

Debian-Edu

Libertade

LinEx

Debian-Med

Debian-NP

Knoppix

Morphix

AGNULA

Impi

Adamantix

[this place is for you!]

Debian-BR-CDD

First magic of CDDs

When you just cooperate with Debian

You cooperate with everyone else

(successful revolutions are made by lazy revolutionaries)

Extreme Customization

Debian is a wad of wet clay: CDDs give it a shape!

With CDDs you finally can:

Work with what you like!

Choose your users!

Market to specific groups

Provide (sell?) user support

Foster specific user communities

Create targeted documentation!

Solve specific problems!

(successful revolutions happen when people are happy with it)

Make people (and yourself) satisfied and happy!

A dream that can come true

Debian for Non Profit organizations

Why Debian Non Profit

We want to make the world a better place. But we are just peaceful computer people: we need to be smart:

To influence governments you need skilled politicians

To influence big and evil corporations you need lots of people

To get people to love each other you need lots of fantasy

Non Profits are already doing all this, we just need to help them.

Fair trade and charity shops need inventory management and country-specific accounting software

Health related organizations need clinical files management

Media activists need multimedia publishing and sharing frameworks

Human Right organizations need very strong crypto and security

...

Diversity of Non Profits

Custom Debians for Non Profits

Few common needs: we need to customize

Few resources: we need to share efforts

Custom Debian Distributions are The Perfect Thing:

Debian Non-Profit Internet Server (to host internet services on behalf of various NGOs)

Debian Non-Profit Intranet Server

Debian Non-Profit Workstation for Fast Computers

Debian Non-Profit Workstation for Slow Computers

Why only customize Debian?

Debian Internet Café
(Debian NP Workstation with interface simplified for web browsing)

Debian Telecentros
(Debian Internet Café with default Brasilian translation and a preselection of brasilian web bookmarks)

Debian Telecentros San Paolo
(Debian Telecentros with an extra bookmark selection for San Paolo resources, and colours and logo for the San Paolo state)

Debian Telecentro Isla Feliz
(with preset connection parameters, pictures of the barrio, services specific for this telecentro)

(note: all of these are
fictious examples)

But if everyone does their own one...

...Debian-NP keeps them together!

Many subdistros but few (one?) developer community

Central point for competence and experience exchange

Sharing of best practices

Sharing and reusing of ideas

Sharing of documentation, cliparts, pictures, stories and other free content

Noone should work alone!

In short

Customization is good!

Cooperation is good!

We want both!

We will get that!

We will have a lot of fun!

(and Total World Domination)

How?

Ask Otavio!

He knows a big deal!

45 mins including questions: ~35 mins of talk

Goal: show that there are problems we don't usually think about, nor we are

aware of

Introduction: what the talk is about

Showing non-technical problems that can happen inside Debian and we ren't always aware of

2003-07-19T11:28:55