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Debian turns 14 today!
Debian, one of my long time favorite Linux distributions turned 14 today. Without the Debian project there would be no Ubuntu. Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. Debian is pronounced /ˈde.bi.ən/. It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. Happy 14th birthday Debian! |
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Comments (9)
What you said! Happy Birthday, Debian, may you have many more!
I declare my uabashed love for Debian. It's treated me better than just about anything else I've used.
Don't let dino hear you. He'll drive you into the sea, he will!
>Don't let dino hear you. He'll drive you into the sea, he will!
Goodness no. I don't care who runs Debian, so long as I don't have to.
Goodness no. I don't care who runs Debian, so long as I don't have to.
Well, you never have to worry about me trying to coerce you to do anything.
Anything at all. :^)
Anything at all. :^)
>Well, you never have to worry about me trying to coerce you to do anything.
And I appreciate that. Now if only my wife would follow your lead... ;0)
And I appreciate that. Now if only my wife would follow your lead... ;0)
> Now if only my wife would follow your lead...
Didn't you read your marriage contract? It's in there, and you signed it: "Obey!"
_Voluntary_ servitude isn't unconstitutional. :^)
Didn't you read your marriage contract? It's in there, and you signed it: "Obey!"
_Voluntary_ servitude isn't unconstitutional. :^)
Quoting:Happy Birthday, Debian, may you have many more!And a better behaved teenager, there never was.
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What's most interesting, maybe, is how much they haven't changed. "dselect", the tool for package management that I first used, still works today exactly as it did then. I remember scrolling through page after page of packages, selecting ones that looked interesting (or that I recognized from having used SunOS, like xv) and having their dependencies automatically taken care of but only after I say it's ok.
This is not a bad thing, it demonstrates that some designs work from their inception.
Needless to say that the installation has gotten better over time, that the number and variety of available packages has expanded (from ~400 to more than 21k), but then so has the user base.
I've installed Debian on three different hardware architectures, including through a console cable on a headless SPARC-2, and it just works.
I'm just a user, I never pretended to be anything more. I file the occasional bugreport, I get on the occasional Debian Developer's nerves with "stupid questions", but such is life.
My thanks to the Debian developers that make it all possible.