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A Custom Debian Distribution (also known as a CDD) is a subset of Debian GNU/Linux distribution that is configured to support a particular target group out-of-the-box. The changes are integrated to the official Debian archives, e.g.: Debian Jr. When a CDD is in development, such as Sacix, developed for the city of São Paulo, some changes can be merged back to the Debian project but the CDD build and all the new or modified packages remains a separate entity.
A Custom Debian Distribution can contain multiple flavors (or profiles) (e.g. Skolelinux has flavors for main-server, workstation, and thin-client-server).
Children Distributions
The Debian based GNU/Linux distributions that do not aim to merge back all the changes to the parent project or follow its policies are considered child distributions and not CDDs.
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