Thirty years of Debian!
Thirty years of Debian!
Today, August 16 2023, marks the 30th anniversary of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. It was the first linux version I installed after ditching Windows completely. And today, Debian is still very relevant.
30 years of Ian being reminded that it was a dumb idea to name his biggest project ever after his then-not-yet ex-wife Debra.
(Ok, they've only been divorced for 15 of these 30 years)
24Ian passed away in December 2015, so not even that long.
20Fair point. Yeah his last few years haven't been exactly glorious.
8Kinda cute kinda sad their legacy will probably outlive them by far
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That stupidity is (kinda) lost in time, tho.
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I remember installing a very very early release of Debian back in the mid 90s on a 486. I have had a Debian system of some sort ever since then.
14The packages in Debian stable are also about 30 years old.
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Glad they mentioned the mode lines. Debian used to give a very scary warning about mode lines destroying your monitor that no other distro even thought to tell you about. Auto configuration of the X server was truly a technological marvel.
9Happy birthday!
8Happy Birthday to the best linux distro out there!
4Ian passed away in December 2015, so not even that long.
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