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Lars Wirzenius

Happy birthday, #Debian

On this day in 1993, that's 30 years ago, Ian Murdock announced the imminent release of a new Linux distribution.

wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?

16 Aug 2023 at 5:04 | Open on toot.liw.fi
6 comments
Daniel Lakeland

@liw
Wow Happy Birthday Debian, and RIP Ian Murdock. He did a great thing for the world. I've been using Debian since mid 1990s, Its always been rock solid.

16 Aug 2023 at 5:10 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
bun

@liw i probably read this wrong, but wasnt regular release almost 32 years ago?

16 Aug 2023 at 12:03 | Open on mastodon.social
. stdh .

@Detail @liw Perhaps it's Linux (the kernel) you're thinking of? That started in '91 IIRC.

16 Aug 2023 at 14:16 | Open on hostux.social
Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

@liw Ah, SLS, my first distro. Recently returned to daily personal Linux with Debian on a new ThinkPad, and although the return was bumpy, it was familiar and problems were easily fixed.

Thank you for the reminder of Debian's anniversary!

16 Aug 2023 at 16:24 | Open on hachyderm.io
Philip McGrath

@liw

> What will make this release better than SLS? > …
> 2) Debian will contain the most up-to-date of > everything. The system
> will be easy to keep up-to-date with a 'upgrading' script in
> the base system which will allow complete integration of
> upgrade packages.

16 Aug 2023 at 18:39 | Open on mastodon.social
okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin

@liw
#Devuan has only been around for 7.... 😁

16 Aug 2023 at 20:08 | Open on mastodon.social
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