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<chapt id="introduction">
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<heading>Introduction</heading>
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A general purpose operating system like Debian can be the
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perfect solution for many different problems. Whether
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you want Debian to work for you in the classroom, as a
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games machine, or in the office, each problem area has its
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own unique needs and requires a different subset of
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packages tailored in a different way.
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Debian Pure Blends (formerly known as Custom Debian Distributions)
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provide support for special user interests. They implement a new
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approach to cover interests of specialised users, who might be
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children, lawyers, medical staff, visually impaired people, etc. Of
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late, several Debian Pure Blends have evolved. The common goal of
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those is to make installation and administration of computers for
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their target users as easy as possible, and to serve in the role as
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the missing link between software developers and users well.
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Using the object oriented approach as an analogy, if Debian as a whole
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is an object, a Debian Pure Blend is an instance of this object that
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inherits all features while providing certain properties.
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So the Debian project releases the Debian Distribution which
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includes several Blends. In contrast to this, there might be some
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other Debian related Projects, either external or non-official, which
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may create "derivative distributions". But these are not the
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responsibility of the Debian project.
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