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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.


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) the 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.


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

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:


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Custom Debian Distributions

9 April 2004

Andreas Tille tille@debian.org