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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 (guest, #216) [Link] (1 responses)

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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