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2023-08-17 |
Debian project turns 30 years old |
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The Debian project is one of the world's oldest surviving distributions. It is also one of the largest projects, with around a thousand active developers. Debian is not only a popular distribution on its own, especially in the server market, it is also the basis for many of the world's most commonly used distributions, such as Ubuntu. This week Debian turned 30 years old. "Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named 'The Debian Linux Release'.
He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian laid out guidelines for how this new release would work, what approach the release would take regarding its size, manner of upgrades, installation procedures; and with great care of consideration for users without Internet connection.
Unaware that he had sparked a movement in the fledgling F/OSS community, Ian worked on and continued to work on Debian. The release, now aided by volunteers from the newsgroup and around the world, grew and continues to grow as one of the largest and oldest free operating systems that still exist today." Happy birthday, Debian. |
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