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Happy 17th Birthday, Debian!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the august-is-interesting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based."

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  1. Re:Wrong about one of those by ignavus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    See also this blog post from Microsoft's Raymond Chen.

    Great quote from the comments to this article, explaining the big problem with Windows:

    Me: "I thought I installed antivirus software, but it's not running?"

    Mom: "Oh, I uninstalled that - it kept keeping me from opening my emails"

    Just about all the major problems with Windows are there: security as a bolt-on, ordinary users having administrator rights, Windows viruses, annoying operating system nag messages, and of course, a liberal dose of user cluelessness with that administrator access.

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    I am anarch of all I survey.