# Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock

Bits from Debian Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock On Wed 30 December 2015 with tags ian murdock in memoriam Written by Ana Guerrero Lopez, Donald Norwood and Paul Tagliamonte Translations: ca es fr pt-BR ru zh-CN zh-HK zh-TW With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the 'ian' in Debian. Ian started the Debian project in August of 1993, releasing the first versions of Debian later that same year. Debian would go on to become the world's Universal Operating System, running on everything from embedded dev

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