Keynote speech @ GNOME.Asia 2015 in Depok, Indonesia

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
linkedin.com/in/mdamtlinkedin.com/in/mdam

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

7. BlankOn Linux

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

9. Package repository
Debian
BlankOn

10. Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
Usual stack

11. Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
Boot Loader

12. Boot Loader
Kernel
Sistem Dasar
GUI
Aplikasi
Kernel

13. Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
Base system

14. Base system
Miniroot BlankOn (ARM)
Debian bootstrap with BlankOn packages

15. Base system (ARM)
Miniroot BlankOn
Basic shell
busybox + init scripts
https://github.com/BlankOn/miniroot

16. Base system
Debootstrap with BlankOn packages
Essential BlankOn packages
libc, systemd, middlewares, etc

17. Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
GUI

18. GUI
GNOME 3 platform
GNOME Session D-Bus GStreamer
PulseAudio NetworkManager Pango
PackageKit Telepathy WebKit GIO GVFS

19. Manokwari
Capital of West Papua province
White and sandy beaches
Capital of West Papua province
White and sandy beaches
Manokwari

20. GUI
Manokwari desktop
➔ HTML5 frontend
➔ Vala backend
➔ evolution from BlankOn Panel

21. architecture (then)
BlankOn
GNOME
Linux

22. architecture (then)
BlankOn
GNOME
Linux
gnome-panel
nautilus
metacity
chromium
evolution

23. architecture (then)
BlankOn
GNOME
Linux
gnome-panel
nautilus
metacity
chromium
evolution

24. gnome-panel

25. subsystem choices
BlankOn
GNOME
Linux
nautilus
metacity
chromium
evolution
gnome-panel
gnome-shell
unity
????

26. blankon-panel (2011)

27. blankon-panel
panel

28. blankon-panel
Vala
GTK+ 3

29. manokwari (2012)

30. manokwari (2012)
panel
desktop

31. manokwari (2012)
Vala
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
GTK+ 3

32. architecture
webkitgtk
backend
GTK+ front-end
HTML front-end
Vala
HTML/JS/CSS

33. Maleo
Macrocephalon maleo
Endemic to Sulawesi Island
Endangered species

34. GUI
Maleo HTML5 application runner (since 2012)
libseed
JSC GObject
Seed
Maleo
WebkitGtk

35. Maleo applications
Maleo
config.xml
HTML5
CSS
JS
Maleo

36. Maleo and it’s bridge to system
Maleo
config.xml
HTML5
CSS
JS
Maleo
Seed JSC NodeJS

38. Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
Application

39. Application
HTML5
GTK+
Qt

40. Boot Loader
Kernel
Base system
GUI
Application
Conclusion
GNOME plays a
very important role as a basic
platform
BlankOn goes towards web
technologies

41. Terima kasih
github.com/BlankOn
github.com/ridon
bitbucket.org/BlankOn
mdamt@di.blankon.in