Debian Turning 10 Posted by michael on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @11:08PM from the hitting-puberty dept. Rubbersoul writes "On August 16th, the Debian Project will celebrate its 10th birthday. Check debCONF for the birthday party nearest you!"
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Perhaps from an activist's point of view, you are correct.
From a user's point of view, Debian's greatest achievement is having an "unstable" branch that is as stable as some other dist's releases.
From a CS student's point of view, Debian's great achievement may be the package creation and management tools.
For socioligists, it may be the democratic nature of the project.
From a project managers point of view, it may be the fine example of how to establish a development policy.
For me, it's simply that I get to use an OS that does not suck.
Read, L