Today, August 16 2023, marks the 30th anniversary of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. It was the first linux version I installed after ditching Windows completely. And today, Debian is still very relevant.
  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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)

  • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • superkret@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Every line of code has been replaced multiple times but they’re still the same packages!