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Like all teenagers it can be temperamental, and always capable of annoying the middle-aged mainstream. As Debian turns 15 today, iTWire says HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
August 16th, 1993 is the date when the Debian Project was officially founded. A
new Linux distribution at a time when Linux distributions were scarce
enough. A distribution that was open to every developer and user as far
as contributions when was unique.
In many ways Debian, pronounced deb-ee-n after
project founders Debra and Ian Murdock, remains pretty special. After
all, for one thing, it has not taken the Yankee Dollar and joined the
mass migration to commercial Linux land.
It could, therefore, be argued that it is also the last of the real
Linux distros. At least with any significant numbers behind it.
One thing is for sure, Debian is the only Linux project of this size
which has a social contract and even a constitution at the heart of the
project organisation.
Or how about the micro-packaging aspect of the distro which ensures
system consistency across upgrades courtesy of detailed inter-package
relationship dependency information?
According to Wikipedia, Debian is
known for strict adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies,
along with an abundance of options: how does twenty-six thousand
software packages for eleven computer architectures grab you?
At the risk of sounding too much like a Debian fanboy, it is hard to
argue with the fact that this teenage distro has turned into one of the
most popular GNU/Linux operating systems today. Its stability is at the
heart of this success, meaning that the likes of Knoppix and Ubuntu
base themselves upon it.
Like many teenagers, Debian also has a good sense of humour. Look at
the revisions over the years and their accompanying version names:
Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody, Sarge and Etch.
All characters from Toy Story.
This humour is revealed in even greater depth when you consider that
the unstable distribution the project is always working, the one that
is Still In Development, is called SID. No, not because of the still in
development thing but rather because Sid is the unstable kid next door
character in Toy Story of course.
No wonder, then, that Debian fanboys across the world are organising
birthday parties for a Linux Distro to take place at various times
today. One of them can be seen in all its glory on YouTube.
David Bass
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