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Happy Birthday Debian
On August 16, 1993 Ian Murdock announced
the Debian Linux Release on comp.os.linux.development. "This is
just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release,
which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have
put together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn't simply make
some changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put
together this release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied
with much of it, and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be
easier to start from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete
(though I'm still looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most
recent sources for everything), and I'd like to get some feedback before I
add the "fancy" stuff."
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Happy Birthday Debian Posted Aug 20, 2009 20:00 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
I chuckled when I saw this part: "Please note that this release is not yet completed and may not be for several more weeks" ...
Happy Birthday Debian Posted Aug 20, 2009 21:12 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]
Eternal sunshine of the Debian release-date estimates.
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