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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
beginning of 2000
URL
Debian-Jr
Mailing list
debian-jr@lists.debian.org
Initiator
Ben Armstrong synrg@debian.org
Release
Debian 3.0 (Woody)
Goals

Main target are young children, teens should become comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications.

Debian-Jr was the first Custom Debian Distribution - in fact the idea of Custom Distributions was born (these days under the name Debian internal projects but this name was changed because it was also taken for some more technical related projects like IPv6 etc.).

Debian-Jr not only provides games but also cares for their quality. So games which are regarded as "not really for children of this age" are omitted. Moreover choices are made which packages are best suitable to enable children to "work" (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

4.3 Debian-Edu: Debian for Education

Start
Summer of 2002
Mailing list
debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Former Initiator
Raphaël Hertzog hertzog@debian.org
Now responsible
Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com
Release
Sarge
Goals

This project started with the intention to bring back a fork from Debian which was done by some people in France. Because they had some time constraints the people who did 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 which are intended to be used in schools. For instance there are:

LinEX
Debian derivative distribution used in all schools in Extremadura
LliureX
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
Not only related to education but might try also to integrate back their stuff back to Debian.

4.4 DeMuDi: Debian Multimedia Distribution

Start
Currently not announced as official Custom Debian Distribution but part of the Agnula project (founded by European Community) (since 2000)
Initiator
Marco Trevisani marco@centrotemporeale.it
Goals

The initiator is not yet Debian developer but you are able to work on Debian without being an official developer.


4.5 Debian-Desktop: Debian GNU/Linux for everybody

Motto: "Software, which just works".

Start
October 2002
URL
Debian-Desktop
Mailing list
debian-desktop@lists.debian.org
Initiator
Colin Walters walters@debian.org
Goals

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 which 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

The word lex originates from 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

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

4.9 Debian Enterprise

Debian GNU/Linux for Enterprise Computing

Start
End of 2003
URL
Debian-Enterprise
Initiator
Zenaan Harkness zen@iptaustralia.net
Goals

4.10 Other possible Custom Debian Distributions

There are fields which could be served nicely by not yet existing Custom Debian Distributions:

Debian-eGov
Government issues, administration, authorities office, accounting
Office
Cover all office issues
Accounting
Integrate accounting systems into Debian
Geography
Geographical information systems (GIS)
Biology
perhaps taking over some stuff from Debian-Med
Physics
Simulation
Mathematics
even have a live CD - see Quantian in Building Live CDs of each Custom Debian Distribution, Section 8.5
???
There are a lot off more Custom Debian Distributions thinkable

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Custom Debian Distributions

28 July 2004

Andreas Tille tille@debian.org