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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!

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    1. Re:Fun! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can't you leave the fucking Raspberry Pi out of it for one day? Do you have to usurp Debian's birthday to hype your underpowered computer surrogate?

  2. Re:Not the first,but the first to get packaging ri by cpu6502 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >>>There were others before Debian [April 1993]: RedHat, Slackware, etc..... I had been used to RedHat, where you'd try to install a package, it would complain about dependencies..... you'd have to surf the web for someone who had an RPM for that dependency...

    The web?
    In 1992?
    Hmmm.
    Maybe you met the Usenet or Fidonet or online BBSes.

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