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Custom Debian Distributions
Chapter 4 - Existing Custom Debian Distributions
4.1 Debian Junior: Debian for children from 1 to 99
- Start
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beginning of 2000
- URL
-
Debian Jr.
- Mailing list
-
debian-jr@lists.debian.org
- Initiator
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Ben Armstrong
synrg@debian.org
- Release
-
Debian 3.0 (Woody)
- Goals
-
-
To make Debian an OS that children of all ages will want to use,
preferring it over the alternatives.
-
To care for those applications in Debian suitable for children, and ensure
their quality, to the best of our abilities.
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To make Debian a playground for children's enjoyment and exploration.
The main target is young children. By the time children are teenaged, they
should be comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications.
Debian Jr. was the first Custom Debian Distribution. In fact, at the time this
project was created, the idea of Custom Debian Distributions was born, although
then, we used the term "internal project". Over time, this name was
changed because it was too broad, as it was equally descriptive of a number of
quite different projects, such as IPv6 and QA.
Debian Jr. not only provides games, but is also concerned about their quality
from a child's perspective. Thus, games that are regarded as not well suited
to young children are omitted. Moreover, choices are made about which packages
are best suited for children to use for various other activities and tasks that
interest them. This includes, for example, simple text processing, web
browsing and drawing.
4.2 Debian-Med: Debian in Health Care
- Start
-
beginning of 2002
- URL
-
Debian-Med
- Mailing list
-
debian-med@lists.debian.org
- Initiator
-
Andreas Tille
tille@debian.org
- Release
-
Sarge
- Goals
-
-
To build an integrated software environment for all medical tasks.
-
To care especially for the quality of program packages in the field of medicine
that are already integrated within Debian.
-
To build and include in Debian packages of medical software that are missing in
Debian.
-
To care for a general infrastructure for medical users.
-
To make efforts to increase the quality of third party Free Software in the
field of medicine.
4.3 Debian-Edu: Debian for Education
- Start
-
Summer of 2002, since 2003 merged with SkoleLinux, which is now synonymous with
Debian-Edu
- URL
-
Debian-Edu Wiki
- Mailing list
-
debian-edu@lists.debian.org
- Former Initiator
-
Raphaël Hertzog
hertzog@debian.org
- Now responsible
-
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere@hungry.com
- Release
-
Sarge
- Goals
-
-
To make Debian the best distribution available for educational use.
-
Provide a ready to run classroom installation with free educational software.
An automatically installed server provides net-boot services for disk-less thin
clients and all necessary applications for educational use.
-
To federate many initiatives around education, which are partly based on forks
of Debian.
-
To continue the internationalisation efforts of SkoleLinux.
-
To focus on easy installation in schools.
This project started with the intention to bring back into Debian a fork from
Debian that was started by some people in France. Because they had some time
constraints, the people who initially started this effort handed over
responsibility to the Norwegian Skolelinux
, which is currently more
or less identical to Debian-Edu.
The Debian-Edu project gathered special interest in Spain because there are
derived Debian distributions from this country that are intended to be used in
schools. For instance there are:
LinEX
-
A Debian derivative distribution used in all schools in Extremadura.
LliureX
-
A Debian derivative distribution in development to be used in schools in
Valencia. The goal is to integrate as much as possible as a Custom Debian
Distribution.
Guadalinex
-
This distribution is not only related to education, but might try also to
integrate what they have produced back into Debian.
4.4 DeMuDi: Debian Multimedia Distribution
- Start
-
Currently not announced as an official Custom Debian Distribution, but intends
to integrate back. DeMuDi is part of the
Agnula
project (founded by European
Community) (since 2000).
- URL
-
Demudi
- Initiator
-
Marco Trevisani
marco@centrotemporeale.it
- Goals
-
-
To bring back this fork into Debian.
-
Oriented toward music and multimedia.
-
To make GNU/Linux a platform of choice for the musician and the multimedia
artist.
The initiator is not yet a Debian developer, but it is possible to work on
Debian without being an official developer.
4.5 Debian-Desktop: Debian GNU/Linux for everybody
Motto: "Software that Just Works".
- Start
-
October 2002
- URL
-
Debian-Desktop
- Mailing list
-
debian-desktop@lists.debian.org
- Initiator
-
Colin Walters
walters@debian.org
- Goals
-
-
To try to build the best possible operating system for home and corporate
workstation use.
-
To ensure desktops like GNOME and KDE coexist well in Debian and work
optimally.
-
To balance ease of use for beginners with flexibility for experts.
-
To make the system easy to install and configure (e.g. via
hardware-detection).
This Custom Debian Distribution has many common issues with other Custom
Distributions. The latest move of Debian-Desktop was to care about more up to
date software that can be used as common base for all Custom Debian
Distributions. The common interest is described in detail in New way to distribute Debian,
Section 8.6.
4.6 Debian-Lex: Debian GNU/Linux for Lawyers
- Start
-
April 2003
- URL
-
Debian-Lex
- Mailing list
-
debian-lex@lists.debian.org
- Initiator
-
Jeremy Malcolm
Jeremy@Malcolm.id.au
- Goals
-
-
To build a complete system for all tasks in legal practice.
-
To add value by providing customised templates for lawyers to existing packages
like OpenOffice.org and SQL-Ledger, and sample database schemas for PostgreSQL.
The word lex is the Latin word for law.
4.7 Debian-NP: Debian GNU/Linux for Non-profit Organisations
- Start
-
July 2003
- URL
-
Debian-NP
- Initiator
-
Benjamin 'Mako' Hill
mako@debian.org
- Goals
-
-
To address requirements of small non-profit organisations.
-
To prepare Debian for desktop use in non-profit organisations.
-
To provide software that solves non-profit tasks such as fund raising,
membership lists, and conference organisation.
Non-profits are often familiar with Free Software.
4.8 Debian Accessibility Project
Debian for blind and visually impaired people
- Start
-
February 2003
- Initiator
-
Mario Lang
mlang@debian.org
- URL
-
Debian-Accessibility
- Mailing list
-
debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
-
-
To make Debian accessible to people with disabilities.
-
To take special care for:
-
Screen magnification programs
-
Software speech synthesisers
-
Speech recognition software
-
Scanner drivers and OCR software
-
Specialised software like edbrowse (web-browse in the spirit of line-editors)
-
To make text-mode interfaces available.
-
To provide screen reader functionality during installation.
4.9 Debian Enterprise
Debian GNU/Linux for Enterprise Computing
- Start
-
End of 2003
- URL
-
Debian-Enterprise
- Initiator
-
Zenaan Harkness
zen@iptaustralia.net
- Goals
-
-
To apply the UserLinux Manifesto.
-
To establish the benchmark in world class Enterprise operating systems
engineered within an industry driven shared-cost development model.
-
To vigorously defend its distinctive trademarks and branding.
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To develop extensive and professional quality documentation.
-
To provide engineer certification through partner organisations.
-
To certify the Debian Enterprise GNU/Linux operating system to specific
industry standards.
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To pre-configure server tasks
4.10 Other possible Custom Debian Distributions
There are fields that could be served nicely by not yet existing Custom Debian
Distributions:
- Debian-eGov
-
Could address government issues, administration, offices of authorities,
accounting.
- Office
-
Could cover all office issues.
- Accounting
-
Could integrate accounting systems into Debian.
- Geography
-
Could look after geographical information systems (GIS).
- Biology
-
Could perhaps take over some stuff from Debian-Med.
- Physics
-
Might look after simulation software.
- Mathematics
-
There is even already a live CD - see Quantian in Building Live CDs of each Custom Debian
Distribution, Section 8.5
- ???
-
There are a lot more potential Custom Debian Distributions.
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12 August 2004
Andreas Tille tille@debian.org