<chapt id="existing">
  <heading>Existing Debian Pure Blends</heading>

  <sect id="debian-jr">
  <heading>Debian Junior: Debian for children from 1 to 99</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>beginning of 2000</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Jr." id="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Jr." id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/junior/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name=" debian-jr@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-jr/"></item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Ben Armstrong <email>synrg@debian.org</email></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item><url name="Activists on Debian Jr. mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_jr.png"></item>
  <tag>Release</tag>
   <item>Debian 3.0 (Woody)</item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>To make Debian an OS that children of all ages will <em>want</em>
           to use, preferring it over the alternatives.</item>
     <item>To care for those applications in Debian suitable for children,
           and ensure their quality, to the best of our abilities.
     <item>To make Debian a playground for children's enjoyment and
           exploration.</item>
    </list>
   </item>

</taglist>
The main target is young children.  By the time children are teenaged, they
should be comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications.
</p>
<p>
Debian Jr. was the first Blend.  In fact, at the time this project was
created, the idea behind of Debian Pure Blends was born, although
then, we used the term "Debian Internal Project".  Over time, this
name was changed to "Custom Debian Distributions" first because it was
too broad, as it was equally descriptive of a number of quite
different projects, such as IPv6 and QA.  The next change of names
became necessary when it was realised that the term "Custom Debian
Distribution" was considered as "something else than Debian" by any
newcomer.  This was so misleading that it effectively blocked a wide
propagation of the principle.
</p>
<p>
Debian Jr. not only provides games, but is also concerned about their
quality from a child's perspective.  Thus, games that are regarded as
not well suited to young children are omitted.  Moreover, choices are
made about which packages are best suited for children to use for
various other activities and tasks that interest them.  This includes,
for example, simple text processing, web browsing and drawing.
</p>
</sect>


  <sect id="debian-med">
  <heading>Debian Med: Debian in Health Care</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item><url name="beginning of 2002" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/01/msg01730.html"></item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Med" id="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Med" id="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name=" debian-med@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/"></item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Andreas Tille <email>tille@debian.org</email></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item>
     <p><url name="Activists on Debian Med mailing list"   id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_med.png"></p>
     <p><url name="Activists on Debian Med developer list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-med-packaging.png"></p>
     <p><url name="Activists on Debian Med commit list"    id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-med-commit.png"></p>
   </item>
  <tag>Release</tag>
   <item>Sarge</item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>To build an integrated software environment for all medical tasks.</item>
     <item>To care especially for the quality of program packages in the field of medicine 
           that are already integrated within Debian.</item>
     <item>To build and include in Debian packages of medical software that are missing
           in Debian.</item>
     <item>To care for a general infrastructure for medical users.</item>
     <item>To make efforts to increase the quality of third party Free Software
           in the field of medicine.</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>

</sect>

  <sect id="debian-edu">
  <heading>Debian Edu: Debian for Education</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>Summer of 2002, since 2003 merged with SkoleLinux, which is now
   synonymous with Debian Edu</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Edu Wiki"
   id="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Edu" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/edu/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name=" debian-edu@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item><url name="Activists on Debian Edu mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_edu.png"></item>
  <tag>Responsible</tag>
   <item>Petter Reinholdtsen <email>pere@hungry.com</email></item>
  <tag>Release</tag>
   <item>Sarge</item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>To make Debian the best distribution available for educational
           use.</item> 
     <item>Provide a ready to run classroom installation with free
           educational software.  An automatically installed server 
           provides net-boot services for disk-less thin clients and
           all necessary applications for educational use.</item>
     <item>To federate many initiatives around education, which are
           partly based on forks of Debian.</item>
     <item>To continue the internationalisation efforts of SkoleLinux.
           </item> 
     <item>To focus on easy installation in schools.</item>
     <item>To cooperate with other education-related projects (like 
           <url id="http://schoolforge.net/" name="Schoolforge">,
           <url id="http://www.ofset.org/" name="Ofset">, 
           <url id="http://edu.kde.org/" name="KdeEdu">).</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>

This project started with the intention to bring back into Debian a fork from
Debian that was started by some people in France.  Because they had some
time constraints, the people who initially started this effort
handed over responsibility to the Norwegian <url name="Skolelinux"
id="http://www.skolelinux.org">, which is currently more or less
identical to Debian Edu.
</p>
<p>
The Debian Edu project gathered special interest in Spain because
there are derived Debian distributions from this country that are
intended to be used in schools.  For instance there are: 
  <taglist>
    <tag><url id="http://www.linex.org/" name="LinEX"></tag>
     <item><p>A Debian derivative distribution used in all schools in
           Extremadura.</p>
           <p>Currently they are joining Debian Edu and by doing so
           becoming fully integrated into Debian.  This is a really
           important move because it brings a lot of good software and
           experience back into Debian.
           </p>
     </item>
  </taglist>
</p>
</sect>

  <sect id="demudi">
  <heading>Debian Multimedia</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>
     <p>In 2004 there was and effort by DeMuDi to become a Blend but
         this effort seems to have stalled.  DeMuDi was part of the
	 <url name="Agnula" id="http://www.agnula.org/"> project
         (founded by European Community) and the work somehow was
         taken over by the 64 studio project.
     </p>
     <p>At DebConf 10 in the
        <url name="Debian Multimdia BOF" id="http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/670.en.html">
        a decision was made to use the Blends stuff for rendering
        web sentinel pages.  It was furtherly mentioned that the
        people driving DeMuDi joined the Debian Multimedia packaging
        team so there is now an unique effort to tackle multimedia
        relevant packages.
     </p>
   </item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Multimedia" id="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia">
   </item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Multimedia" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item>
     <p><url name="Activists on Debian Multimedia maintainers mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-multimedia-maintainers.png"></p>
     <p><url name="Activists on Debian Multimedia commits mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-multimedia-commits.png"></p>
     <p><url name="Activists on Debian Multimedia user mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_multimedia.png"></p>
   </item>
  <tag>Responsible</tag>
   <item>Reinhard Tartler<email>siretart@tauware.de</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>Oriented toward audio and video</item>
     <item>To make GNU/Linux a platform of choice for the musician
           and the multimedia artist.</item>
     <item>Join multimedia forces inside Debian</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>
</p>
</sect>

<sect id="debian-gis">
  <heading>Debian GIS: Geographical Information Systems</heading>
<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item><url name="October 2004" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/10/msg00007.html"</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="DebianGIS Wiki"
   id="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian GIS" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name="user and developer list" id="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/MailingLists"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item><url name="Activists on Debian GIS mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-grass-general.png"></item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Francesco P. Lovergine <email>frankie@debian.org</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>Geographical Information Systems</item>
     <item><url name="OpenStreetMap" id="http://www.openstreetmap.org"> and GPS devices</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>
</p>
</sect>

<sect id="debichem">
  <heading>DebiChem: Debian for Chemistry</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>October 2004</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debichem Alioth page"
   id="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debichem/"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of DebiChem" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/debichem/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name="debichem-users@lists.alioth.debian.org" id="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debichem-users"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item>
    <p><url name="Activists on DebiChem mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debichem-devel.png"></p>
    <p><url name="Activists on DebiChem commits list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debichem-commits.png"></p>
   </item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Michael Banck <email>mbanck@debian.org</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>Chemical applications in Debian</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>
</p>

</sect>

<sect id="debian-science">
  <heading>Debian Science: Debian for science</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item><url name="July 2005" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01555.html"></item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Science Wiki"
   id="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Science" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name="debian-science@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item>
    <p><url name="Activists on Debian Science mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_science.png"></p>
    <p><url name="Activists on Debian Science maintainers list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-maintainers.png"></p>
    <p><url name="Activists on Debian Science commits list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-commits.png"></p>
   </item>
  <tag>Responsible</tag>
   <item>Sylvestre Ledru <email>sylvestre@debian.org</email></item>
</taglist>
</p>

<p>
  While there are Debian Pure Blends that care for certain sciences
  (Debian Med deals in a main part with Biology, DebiChem for
  Chemistry and Debian GIS for geography) not all sciences are covered
  by a specific Blend.  The main reason is that at the moment not
  enough people support such an effort for every science.  The
  temporary solution was to build a general Debian Science Blend that
  makes use of the work of other Blends in case it exists.
</p>
</sect>

  <sect id="accessibility">
  <heading>Debian Accessibility Project</heading>

<p>
Debian for blind and visually impaired people

<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>February 2003</item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name=" debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/"></item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Accessibility" id="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Accessibility" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/accessibility/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item><url name="Activists on Debian Accessibility mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_accessibility.png"></item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Mario Lang <email>mlang@debian.org</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>To make Debian accessible to people with disabilities.</item>
     <item>To take special care for: Screen readers; Screen magnification programs;
	   Software speech synthesisers; Speech recognition software; Scanner drivers
	   and OCR software; Specialised software like edbrowse (web-browse in the
           spirit of line-editors)
     </item> 
     <item>To make text-mode interfaces available.</item>
     <item>To provide screen reader functionality during installation.</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>

</p>
</sect>


<sect id="stalled-blends">
  <heading>Blends that were announced but development is stalled</heading>

  <sect1 id="debian-desktop">
  <heading>Debian Desktop: Debian GNU/Linux for everybody</heading>

<p>
Motto: "Software that Just Works".

<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>October 2002</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Desktop" id="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name=" debian-desktop@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/"></item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Colin Walters <email>walters@debian.org</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>To try to build the best possible operating system for home
           and corporate workstation use.</item> 
     <item>To ensure desktops like GNOME and KDE coexist well in Debian and
           work optimally.</item>
     <item>To balance ease of use for beginners with flexibility
           for experts.</item>
     <item>To make the system easy to install and configure (e.g. via
           hardware-detection).</item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>

This Blend has many common issues with other Blends. The latest move
of Debian Desktop was to care about more up to date software that can
be used as common base for all Debian Pure Blends.  The
common interest is described in detail in <ref
id="new_ways_of_distribution">.  Unfortunately since about 2004 the
project is really silent and it might be considered dead now.
</p>
</sect1>

  <sect1 id="debian-lex">
  <heading>Debian Lex: Debian GNU/Linux for Lawyers</heading>

<p>
<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>April 2003</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item><url name="Debian Lex" id="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-lex"></item>
  <tag>Tasks</tag>
   <item><url name="Tasks of Debian Lex" id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/lex/tasks"></item>
  <tag>Mailing list</tag>
   <item><url name=" debian-lex@lists.debian.org" id="http://lists.debian.org/debian-lex/"></item>
  <tag>Activity</tag>
   <item><url name="Activists on Debian Lex mailing list" id="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_lex.png"></item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Jeremy Malcolm <email>Jeremy@Malcolm.id.au</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <item>To build a complete system for all tasks in legal
           practice.</item>
     <item>To add value by providing customised templates for lawyers to
           existing packages like OpenOffice.org and SQL-Ledger, and
	   sample database schemas for PostgreSQL.
     </item>
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>
The word <em>lex</em> is the Latin word for law.
</p>
</sect1>


  <sect1 id="debian-enterprise">
  <heading>Debian Enterprise</heading>

<p>
Debian GNU/Linux for Enterprise Computing

<taglist>
  <tag>Start</tag>
   <item>End of 2003</item>
  <tag>URL</tag>
   <item>Debian Enterprise</item>
  <tag>Initiator</tag>
   <item>Zenaan Harkness <email>zen@iptaustralia.net</email></item>
  <tag>Goals</tag>
   <item>
    <list>
     <!-- [BA] The following are stated on the web site as what Debian Enterprise
          does, and not as goals.  But the goals section on the web site is hard
	  to reduce to specific goals point-by-point.  I believe this needs fixing,
	  and perhaps could be improved by talking it over with Zenaan. -->
     <item>To apply the UserLinux Manifesto.</item>
     <item>To establish the benchmark in world class Enterprise
           operating systems engineered within an industry driven
           shared-cost development model.</item>
     <item>To vigorously defend its distinctive trademarks and
           branding.</item>
     <item>To develop extensive and professional quality
           documentation.</item>
     <item>To provide engineer certification through partner
           organisations.</item>
     <item>To certify the Debian Enterprise GNU/Linux operating system
           to specific industry standards.</item>
     <item>To pre-configure server tasks</item>
     <!-- [BA] I don't know what this point means, nor can I find it on the
          web site, so perhaps it should simply be removed.
     <item>To provide install-time options regarding the intended
           purpose.</item>
           [AT] Removed by comment
           The idea behind it was that it might be interesting to
           provide some configuration options for certain servers
           which might have connections to others.  For instance Zope
           can be run behind Apache using some rewriting rules but
           this is poorly documented and a working example or
           something else could help here.  It was discussed via
           E-Mail that Debian Enterprise could provide such
           "inter-package-connection" configurations as examples.
           This was badly worded above and not officially stated at
           their web site, but should not be lost out of focus and
           should remain here at least as comment.  Perhaps you might
           find a better wording.
       -->
    </list>
   </item>
</taglist>
</p>

</sect1>

  <sect1 id="other">
   <heading>Other possible Debian Pure Blends</heading>
<p>
  There are fields that could be served nicely by not yet existing
  Blends:  
  <taglist>
      <tag>Debian eGov</tag>
       <item>Could address government issues, administration, offices of authorities,
             accounting.</item>
      <tag>Office</tag>
       <item>Could cover all office issues.</item>
      <tag>Accounting</tag>
       <item>Could integrate accounting systems into Debian.</item>
      <tag>Biology</tag>
       <item>Could perhaps take over some stuff from Debian Med.</item>
      <tag>Physics</tag>
       <item>Might look after simulation software.</item>
      <tag>Mathematics</tag>
       <item>There is even already a live CD - see Quantian in <ref id="liveCD"></item>
      <tag>???</tag>
       <item>There are a lot more potential Blends.</item>
   </taglist>
</p>
</sect1>

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