Debian GNU/Linux
August 16, 2003 was the tenth anniversary of the first release of the Debian distribution. Debian has come a long way; congratulations are due to the many hundreds of developers who have worked at making it better over the years.
In commemoration of the event, "zwazo" has created 10 Years!, a wallpaper made with The GIMP for the 10 year anniversary of the Debian project with text from Ian Murdock's original announcement.
In this lengthy Bits from the RM, Debian Release Manager Anthony Towns examines the possibility of a stable release (of Sarge) before the end of the year. To get there, the experimental branch needs to be more widely used. Also outlined is a new policy for NMUs.
DebianPlanet covers a
Netcraft
article which says, "Debian is the second most popular Linux
distribution we find on internet web sites, surpassed only by Red Hat, and
leaving the likes of SuSE and Mandrake in its wake.
"
Manoj Srivastava, Debian Project Secretary, has re-opened some pending issues. The issues are:
Constitutional
amendment: disambiguation of 4.1.5 and Constitutional amendment:
alternate disambiguation of 4.1.5.
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