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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.
Custom Debian Distributions (formerly merged together with Debian Internal Projects) 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 Custom Debian Distributions 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.
Using the object oriented approach as an analogy, if Debian as a whole is an object, a Custom Debian Distribution is an instance of this object that inherits all features while providing certain properties.
So the Debian project releases the Debian Distribution and other Custom Debian Distributions. 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.
The effort might fall into the same category as the Componentized
Linux
of Progeny, but there are certain differences that will be
outlined in this paper.
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Custom Debian Distributions
5 November 2008tille@debian.org