Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...
  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I remember, I was 23yo and in a BSc Computer Science. At the time our teachers were more BSD, SVR4, Minix, and of course HP-UX, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, etc. They didn’t like Linux, but us, students, would download kernel and gnu utilities on like 8 floppies, to install on 486, and then the 10 floppies for X11, what a nightmare it was, like Arch today :)

    My first kernel install was v0.99. What a time :) I used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and now MX (still based on Debian) for a long time.

    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
      141·
      1 year ago

      what a nightmare it was, like Arch today

      Disagree. Arch is smooth sailing in comparison. More like installing DOS in the early 90s.

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Love Debian. Been running Stable on servers, and Testing or SID on laptops/desktops, for over a decade. Same installs still running and upgrading. Love the DFSG and all the platforms supports.

    I count Debian as proof humans are not irredeemable.

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I guess people don’t know that Ian Murdock was ghe creator of Debian, with the name coming from his own name and from the name of his partner at the time, Deborah, thus becoming Debian.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep, I have 6 GNU/Linux distributions running concurrently on a variety of drives and devices and Debian is one of my favourites :)