About the Blend
The Debian Hamradio Pure Blend is a project of the Debian Hamradio Maintainers Team who collaborate on maintenance of amateur-radio related packages for Debian. Every Pure Blend is a subset of Debian that is configured to support a particular target group out-of-the-box. This blend aims to support the needs of radio amateurs.
The Blend is built from a curated list of amateur radio software in Debian. The two main outputs from the Blend are a collection of "metapackages" and live images that can be put onto a DVD or a USB stick.
Metapackages
Metapackages in Debian are packages that can be installed just like other packages but that do not contain any software themselves, instead instructing the packaging system to install a group of other packages.
See using the metapackages for more information on which metapackages are available and how to install the metapackages on an existing Debian system.
Live Images
If you're new to Debian and you'd like to try the Debian Hamradio Pure Blend without installing it on your computer, or if you'd like to perform a fresh installation of Debian with all the amateur radio software ready-to-go, you might find the live images useful. Images are produced that can be run from DVDs or USB sticks on both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel architectures.
See the live images page for more information.
