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Debian Turns 20

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-many-more dept.

New submitter stderr_dk writes "According to Wikipedia, the initial release of Debian happened 16 August 1993. In other words, it's Debian's birthday and you're all invited. 'During the Debian Birthday, the Debian conference will open its doors to anyone interested in finding out more about Debian and Free Software, inviting enthusiasts, users, and developers to a half day of talks relating to Free Software, the Debian Project, and the Debian operating system.' Over the years, Debian has been forked a number of times. Some of the more well-known forks are Ubuntu and Knoppix. The latest release of Debian pure blend was Debian 7.1 'Wheezy' on June 15th 2013."

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  1. THANKS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks to Debian devs, community, and everyone else involved.

    1. Re:THANKS!!! by unixisc · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Two things I'd like to really appreciate Debian doing:
      1. 1.)Supporting as many hardware platforms as they could, and not yanking support simply b'cos it's going nowhere. I'm looking at you, Itanic!
      2. 2.)Being platform agnostic as well - coming out with distros of FBSD and HURD

      I really hope that Debian's non-Linux platforms fully develop and mature. Also, I'd toast Debian for being prudent and offering unliberated software separately, in defiance of the FSF jihadis. While on that topic, Debian also should be commended for joining OSI and embracing Open Source as well as their own FSG.

  2. One of the best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Debian is probably the most consistent among all Linux distributions. I love the community spirit and non-commercial nature of Debian. Rock solid and stable and of course truly free "as in freedom".

    And with the goal of being the "universal operating system" which recently come true with becoming the official OS on the International Space Station, I look forward to the next 20 years of Debian awesomeness and galactic domination!

  3. Re:Have they fixed their "Firefox" problem yet? by geek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For Debian, ideology trumps usability. It's why Ubuntu exists.

  4. Re:Have they fixed their "Firefox" problem yet? by sqrt(2) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's too bad Ubuntu went full retard back when they released Unity, and then just threw the oars out of the boat entirely with the Amazon spyware fiasco. Thankfully there's still sane derivative distros like Xubuntu and Mint that can leverage the useful work Canonical is doing.

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  5. Re:Have they fixed their "Firefox" problem yet? by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    maybe complain to firefox about their branding/copyright/licensing?

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  6. Re:Have they fixed their "Firefox" problem yet? by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    just download the latest tarball from mozilla and unpack it into a directory like /local or /opt, then run firefox/firefox on that path what's the big deal?

    http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/