Thirty years of Debian!

https://vazaha.blog/en/22/thirty-years-of-debian

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squaresinger@feddit.de · 23 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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)

Cozog@feddit.dk · 19 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Ian passed away in December 2015, so not even that long.

squaresinger@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Fair point. Yeah his last few years haven't been exactly glorious.

BearPear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

What happened in his last few years?

Sethayy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

Kinda cute kinda sad their legacy will probably outlive them by far

Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

That stupidity is (kinda) lost in time, tho.

halfempty@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y

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.

vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The packages in Debian stable are also about 30 years old.

superkret@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
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nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y

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.

JoelJ@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Happy birthday!

Holzkohlen@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

Happy Birthday to the best linux distro out there!

Cozog@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 2y
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