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Free Software / Debian
Philosophy, Design, Merits
Agenda
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- Why Free Software
- History
- Philosophy
- Why Debian
- History
- Design
- Merits
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Free Software / Debian Philosophy, Design, Merits Ritesh Raj Sarraf April 23 rd 2011 Agenda Why Free Software History Philosophy Why Debian History Design Merits (C) Ritesh Raj Sarraf Free Software Started by
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Free Software
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- Started by Richard Stallman in the 80s
- Eco System for free sharing and exchange of ideas
- Freedom to run the program, for any purpose
- Freedom to study how the program works, and right to modify
- Freedom to further redistribute copies
- GNU Project
- GNU General Public License
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Debian
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- Started by Ian Murdock in 1993
- Association of individuals for a common cause, a free OS
- Meritocracy and Do-Ocracy
- Driven by the Debian Social Contract
- Governed by the Debian Free Software Guidelines
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Distribution
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- Largest set of software packaged (29000+)
- Features
- 12 officially supported architectures
- Tech Preview – Debian GNU/FreeBSD
- Incomplete ports: Hurd, NetBSD
- Stable Package Management – APT
- Quality governed by the Debian Policy
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Social Contract
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- Debian will remain 100% free
- Full DFSG Compliance
- We will give back to the free software community
- Synchronization with Upstream
- We will not hide problems
- Fully public bug database
- Our priorities are our users and free software
- Driven by the Community
- Works that do not meet our free software standards
- nonfree, contrib
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Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)
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- Free Redistribution
- Source Code
- Derived Works
- Integrity of The Author's Source Code
- No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
- No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
- Distribution of License
- License Must Not Be Specific to Debian
- License Must Not Contaminate Other Software
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How Do I Participate?
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- Participate
- Develop
- Packaging
- Bug Fixing
- System Administration
- Artists
- Marketing
- Debian New Maintainer Process
- http://www.debian.org/devel
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Questions
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