Debian feiert heute seinen 15. Geburtstag.

Startpunkt für Debian, dessen Name eine Kombination aus den Vornamen des Debian-Gründers Ian Murdock und seiner Frau Debra ist, war ein Newsposting von Ian Murdock, in dem er seine neue Distribution wie folgt beschreibt:

This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release,
which I’m calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put
together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn’t simply make some
changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put together this
release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it,
and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start
from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I’m still
looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent sources for
everything), and I’d like to get some feedback before I add the “fancy” stuff.

Also dann: Alles Gute und ab geht’s in die nächsten 15 Jahre!