Happy 25th to Debian!

[xenopeek]

Debian was first announced 25 years ago today. A copy of the original announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a ... 00008.html

[JoeFootball]

Very cool, and now I feel old. My very first Linux install was Debian 2.1 (Slink) in 1999, where I couldn't get the video right, and couldn't get the dial-up modem to work at all. How things have changed.

Joe

[KBD47]

Happy Birthday Debian!
And many more!

[xenopeek]

My very first Linux install was Debian 2.1 (Slink) in 1999, where I couldn't get the video right

I think that was also my first Linux install! I recall I had problems with video also. Wrestling with modelines and couldn't get it right

[JoeFootball]

I think that was also my first Linux install! I recall I had problems with video also. Wrestling with modelines and couldn't get it right

Well, at least it wasn't just me who was having video challenges.

All this nostalgia had my curiosity research when Debian 0.01 was actually released, which was 15 September 1993, so just one month from the announcement.

Joe

[all41]

Seems rather young to be our grandparent

[kc1di]

Congratulations Debian Aug 16th was a watershed moment for many Distros that would come from the Debian project.

[Faust]

The most rock-solid stability of any OS I ever came across .

Still using it and still loving it , although mostly in the form of Raspbian these days .

RIP Ian Murdock .
Taken from us too soon , but what a wonderful legacy to leave !

[Portreve]

When I had a file server up and running, I used Debian on it. Debian is known for being a little out-of-date because they value stability and well-tested-ness over anything else. Debian is also known for having releases for just about every kind of hardware platform, and my file server was a G4 Mac mini.

I actually started out using a PowerMac G3 Desktop as a file server and *dramatically* upgraded when I switched¹ to the Mac mini. It died about a year or so ago. Not long before it died, I'd looked at the Debian web site to see about downloading the latest Net Install ISO and discovered they no longer supported the 32 bit PowerPC architecture. I had previously thought about upgrading again and going to some sort of Intel-based system, but thus far I have elected not to bother.


¹ "Dramatic upgrade" refers not just to the fact that a G4 is much more powerful than a G3, but having gone from an Old World ROM to a New World ROM Mac.