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beginning of 2000
Ben Armstrong synrg@debian.org
Debian 3.0 (Woody)
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.
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.
Andreas Tille tille@debian.org
Sarge
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.
Summer of 2002, since 2003 merged with SkoleLinux, which is now synonymous with Debian Edu
Raphaël Hertzog hertzog@debian.org
Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com
Sarge
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.
To cooperate with other education-related projects (like Schoolforge, Ofset, KdeEdu).
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:
LinEXA Debian derivative distribution used in all schools in Extremadura.
Currently a fruitful cooperation between Debian Edu and LinEX is established.
LliureXA 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.
GuadalinexThis distribution is not only related to education, but might try also to integrate what they have produced back into Debian.
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).
Marco Trevisani marco@centrotemporeale.it
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.
Francesco P. Lovergine frankie@debian.org
October 2004
Michael Banck mbanck@debian.org
Helen Faulkner helen@debian.org
While there are Custom Debian Distributions that care for certain sciences (Debian-Med deals in a main part with Biology, DebiChem for Chemestry and Debian-GIS for geography) not all sciences are covered by a specific CDD. The main reason is that at the moment not enough people support such an effort for every science. The temporary solution was to build a general Debian-Science CDD that makes use of the work of other CDDs in case it exists.
Motto: "Software that Just Works".
October 2002
Colin Walters walters@debian.org
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.
April 2003
Jeremy Malcolm Jeremy@Malcolm.id.au
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.
July 2003
Benjamin 'Mako' Hill mako@debian.org
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.
Debian for blind and visually impaired people
February 2003
Mario Lang mlang@debian.org
To make Debian accessible to people with disabilities.
To take special care for:
Screen readers
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.
Debian GNU/Linux for Enterprise Computing
End of 2003
Debian-Enterprise
Zenaan Harkness zen@iptaustralia.net
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.
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.
To pre-configure server tasks
There are fields that could be served nicely by not yet existing Custom Debian Distributions:
Could address government issues, administration, offices of authorities, accounting.
Could cover all office issues.
Could integrate accounting systems into Debian.
Could perhaps take over some stuff from Debian-Med.
Might look after simulation software.
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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Custom Debian Distributions
23 December 2008tille@debian.org