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Happy Birthday, Debian!

Posted by timothy on from the impossibly-worthwhile dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word that as of today, the Debian project — one of the first distros, and still going strong, not to mention parent or grandparent of many other distros — is 19 years old. "Quoting from the official project history: 'The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.' Send an appreciation message: http://thanks.debian.net/."

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  1. Fun! by Bodhammer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I got my Raspbery Pi yesterday.

    Salute Debian!
    FP!

    --
    "I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."