A distro based on Debian
Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to this mail to ask a question about creating a distro using Debian as a base. It won't be commercial - it'll be used in only one school. There won't be used any proprietary software. It's going to be used for education only. So on may I use Debian logo for my distro? Distro will be renamed with Deb-suffix. I hope you'll answer me. Your faithfully, Timur Dyomin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52cc25f6.7050...@gmail.com
Re: A distro based on Debian
Hi Timur, On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:06:14PM +0600, Timur wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to this mail to ask a question about creating a distro using Debian as a base. It won't be commercial - it'll be used in only one school. There won't be used any proprietary software. It's going to be used for education only. Are you sure you want to create a distro for one school? Why not using https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu ??? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140107163541.gt6...@an3as.eu
Re: A distro based on Debian
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:06:14 +0600 Timur deminti...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to this mail to ask a question about creating a distro using Debian as a base. It won't be commercial - it'll be used in only one school. There won't be used any proprietary software. It's going to be used for education only. So on may I use Debian logo for my distro? Distro will be renamed with Deb-suffix. I hope you'll answer me. ... and if you for some reason won't find DebianEdu useful please please please just create a pure blend [1] of Debian, not another distro. And before that, please consider merely preseeding installations of unmodified Debian [2]. Really, there's no point in creating a custom distro when you just want to preset certain settings and install a bunch of software when rolling an OS onto a computer. If you want to make available a number of software packages not present in Debian proper (and may be install them by default) then just set up a custom debian repository (see [3] for one example) and preseed your Debian installation to add this repository to the installation media sources. 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends 2. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed 3. https://wiki.debian.org/SettingUpSignedAptRepositoryWithReprepro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140107213602.bed2744f5b316c58243cc...@domain007.com
Re: A distro based on Debian
Hi Timur, Quoting Konstantin Khomoutov (2014-01-07 18:36:02) On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:06:14 +0600 Timur deminti...@gmail.com wrote: I am writing to this mail to ask a question about creating a distro using Debian as a base. That sounds quite interesting! So on may I use Debian logo for my distro? There are two kinds of official logos - the ones without the bottle you are free to use as long as you follow its license. More info here: https://www.debian.org/logos/ ... and if you for some reason won't find DebianEdu useful please please please just create a pure blend [1] of Debian, not another distro. And before that, please consider merely preseeding installations of unmodified Debian [2]. Uhm, above is almost correct: A Debian Pure Blend can be done using only preseeding. A Debian Blend (i.e. non-pure) can be involve things intended for Debian but not yet included. Read [1] for the details. Really, there's no point in creating a custom distro when you just want to preset certain settings and install a bunch of software when rolling an OS onto a computer. If you want to make available a number of software packages not present in Debian proper (and may be install them by default) then just set up a custom debian repository (see [3] for one example) and preseed your Debian installation to add this repository to the installation media sources. 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends 2. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed 3. https://wiki.debian.org/SettingUpSignedAptRepositoryWithReprepro Those are good advices, but telling someone what is or is not pointless or simple can be quite discouraging. @Timur: Like Knostantin and Andreas I am quite happy that you describe your interest as being non-profit, school-oriented and based closely on Debian, and hope that you find the Debian Blend approach (pure or not) useful. But no matter what you choose to do, I wish you the best of joy, and expect that you will find help on this list if you run into problems or confusion - we are many that have tinkered with the kind of things you are now diving into :-) Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature
