Hello List-users, this is my first email to this list and i want to introduce myself and my project which an old friend of mine and im working on since some years. To my person: my name is Markus Niewerth and im from germany. Im in love with computers since a loooong time and i dont want to profilate myself about that, cause we all have our backgrounds and some of us may have bigger then others. So i see myself as an ant which works more for the debian project as the derivate itself cause it allways reflects the work of many users which have made they packages public thru the debian project. Today i changed the introduction page of our project, which reflects the intentions why Ultimedia Linux exists. So im using it here, to introduce the project as well. I changed the introduction nearly thousands time during the last years, but you know how it is, one thing comes to another and nothing comes from itself. About the Ultimedia Linux project: www.ultimedia-linux.org Ultimedia GNU/Linux is a full Debian derivate and therefore also full open source. The first version of Ultimedia Linux was forked from the Debian 6.0.1 (Squeeze) release. The primary architecture focuses on i386 and 64bit architectures and currently just a limited set of distributed packages. We aim to provide 100% Debian compliant packages. Ultimedia GNU/Linux aims to be full redistributable and to provide the best multimedia integration for modern and also older hardware without all those bugging features, if it comes to GUI improvements like for instance Unity. Ultimedia also aims to be a totally uncomercial project, this means that Ultimedia will never be backed by a company, it is backed by the linux community and users and is just a brand you may later pay attention to. Something about the history The first goal of UltimediaOS was to improve embedded architectures for a multimedia managment system, which brought up the question to distribute Linux sources as well. Ultimedia Linux was first builded like a simple LFS Linux and we implemented the DPKG and APT package to install only modified binary packages. A main problem was the leaking distribution of sources, which was impossible in the LFS environement without unmodified Debian buildtools, but this would reinvent the wheel totally. So the project aims and concepts changed. After many experience times with the LFS Linux and Debian, it was a descision to start forking the Debian distribution, which provides all needed features the Ultimedia project aims on. Many reasons make Debian the prefered operating system for the Ultimedia project. One of them is the wide range and itegrity of distributed software packages and also the wide and open community of Debian users and developers. Now im patiently looking forward to join the Ultimedia derivate on the Debian Census. Also im seeking for some cooperations between other derivates, just sharing of informations would be great. We are all in the same boat :) in this sense... i wish you all time the best -- Markus Niewerth <mniewerth@ultimediaos.com> Ultimedia GNU/Linux
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