On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:22:24PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So last year (well, early this year), Bdale came up with the idea of > "flavours", which unfortunately hasn't really gone anywhere yet. That idea Luckily, it has. Please see http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?CustomDebian The idea of Custom Debians comes also from that Bdale talk, and has landed at this summer's Debcamp where we tried to merge it with other concepts/ideas/names like "metadistro", "custom distro", "subdistro", "subproject", whatever, where applicable. In the Debcamp Custom Distributions BOF[1], [...] "The meeting ended with two major conclusions: 1) They agreed as a group to try and reduce the confusion around the terms subprojects, subdistros, flavors, and others by referring to their projects as Custom Debian Distributions." [...] Just yesterday I delivered a talk at the Bologna's LinuxDay about it. I showed (among other things) how Custom Debian distributions can be a way to gather in the main Debian the externalities created while working with free software. In Debian they can concur, thanks to networking effects (and Metcalfe Law), to a nice creative process and later feed back in the Custom Debians as big improvements on Debian itself. Which can be quite cool :) There is still much to go, much work to do, but at least, luckily, that idea is going on quite fine. Ciao, Enrico [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/News/2003/20030717 -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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