# 25 years and counting

Bits from Debian 25 years and counting On Thu 16 August 2018 with tags debian project anniversary birthday DebianDay debian25 Written by Ana Guerrero Lopez Artwork by Angelo Rosa Translations: es fr kn pt-BR ro ru se vi When the late Ian Murdock announced 25 years ago in comp.os.linux.development, "the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, [...] the Debian Linux Release", nobody would have expected the "Debian Linux Release" to become what's nowadays known as the Debian Project, one of the largest and most influential free software projects. Its primary product is Debian, a free op

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