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The Debian Project
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A Brief Overview

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Bdale Garbee
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<bdale@gag.com>
<leader@debian.org>


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What is Debian?


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  `The Debian Project is an association of individuals who
  have made common cause to create a free operating system.'
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More specifically, Debian:
	is one of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions
	runs on the most architectures
	is a completely open volunteer organization
	is quite international
	is the largest GNU/Linux distribution 
	works with companies to develop and maintain software
	is Focused on Freedom - Social Contract, DFSG
	is well represented in the Free Software world

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A Few Debian Statistics


Debian is a project of Software in the Public Interest

	11 released architectures
		alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips/mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
	other ports in progress
		Hitachi SuperH
		AMD x86-64
	only distribution also working with HURD & BSD kernels

	1134 people
	7264 source packages
	11758 binary packages


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Map of Debian Developer Locations

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Debian Desktop Project

Tenets
	Preserve choice 
	Ease configuration
	Ease administration
	Lower knowledge barriers to entry

Activities
	Create a 'flavor' of Debian for desktop users
	Rewrite of Debian menu system
	Graphical interface for debian-installer
	Reduce prompting during default installation
	Integration of graphical admin tools
	Internationalization
	Kernel built for responsiveness

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To Learn More

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http://www.debian.org/

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http://www.gag.com/~bdale/talks/

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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/