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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>Chapter 1. Introduction</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Debian Pure Blends"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Debian Pure Blends"><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="Debian Pure Blends"><link rel="next" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. What are Debian Pure Blends?"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="introduction"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h1></div></div></div><p>
A general purpose operating system like Debian can be the
perfect solution for many different problems. Whether
you want Debian to work for you in the classroom, as a
games machine, or in the office, each problem area has its
own unique needs and requires a different subset of
packages tailored in a different way.
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Debian Pure Blends
provide support for special user interests. They implement a new
approach to cover interests of specialised users, who might be
children, lawyers, medical staff, visually impaired people, etc. Of
late, several Debian Pure Blends have evolved. The common goal of
those is to make installation and administration of computers for
their target users as easy as possible, and to serve in the role as
the missing link between software developers and users well.
</p><p>
To clarify the relation between a Blend and a derivative which is
frequently mixed up Ben Armstrong said in a
<a class="ulink" href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2011/07/msg00010.html" target="_top">
discussion on the Blends mailing list</a>:
"While a Blend strives to mainstream with Debian, a derivative
strives to differentiate from Debian."
</p><p>
Using the object oriented approach as an analogy, if Debian as a whole
is an object, a Debian Pure Blend is an instance of this object that
inherits all features while providing certain properties.
</p><p>
So the Debian project releases the Debian Distribution which
includes several Blends. In contrast to this, there might be some
other Debian related Projects, either external or non-official, which
may create "derivative distributions". But these are not the
responsibility of the Debian project.
</p><p>
A word of warning: The fact that a Blend covering a certain field of
work does exist does not mean that it might be a complete drop in
replacement of Free Software solutions for all tasks in this specific
field. Some Blends just started to work on this and adopted the
technical framework to formalise the work on the project but it might
perfectly happen that there is just a lack of available Free Software
solutions for certain tasks. Debian can do less about this because we
just assemble a set of software which was developed outside the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution. So it has to be checked whether a specific
Blend is fit for the intended purpose, whether it might cover just
some parts of a fields of work or whether it is just a concept to develop
some solutions for the future.
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