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1.
BlankOn Linux
Architecture
and how GNOME fits into the picture
Mohammad Anwari
mdamt@di.blankon.in
License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
2.
Introduction
1997 co-found Linux Indonesia
2000s various F/OSS contributions
2004 co-found BlankOn
2003-2007 Indonesian translation
coordinator at GNOME
2007-2009 Account Team member at
GNOME
2005-2012 Nokia/Maemo/MeeGo
-> Hildon Input Method maintainer
2013 BlankOn Executive Director
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3.
BlankOn Project
A non-profit effort to develop competences of
Indonesian people by creating an ecosystem around
F/OSS
We have:
➔ businesses
➔ academists
➔ farmers
➔ local government officials
➔ students
➔ ...
4.
Typical Indonesian would willingly contribute to a
community
➔ gotong royong (communal work culture)
➔ want loose or very flexible rules
➔ balance between local and international style
BlankOn Project
5.
BlankOn Project
As a place to exercise before contributing to the
upstream
➔ language barrier
➔ culture shock
6.
Products
➔ Linux distribution: BlankOn Linux
➔ Mobile: Ridon
➔ Desktop: Manokwari
➔ Runtime HTML5: Maleo
➔ Aksara Nusantara
◆ Input methods and fonts
➔ BlankOn Installer
➔ Build farms
➔ Artworks
BlankOn Project
8.
Facts
Debian derivative (was Fedora and Ubuntu
derivative), more than rebranding
9 releases (since 2004) so far
➔ 10th soon to be released
Two lines of hardware architectures
➔ x86 (32 and 64 bits)
➔ ARM
39.
Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
Conclusion
GNOME plays a
very important role as a basic
platform
BlankOn goes towards web
technologies