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BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Thirty years of Debian!

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Thirty years of Debian!

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BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    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)

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      Ian passed away in December 2015, so not even that long.

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        Fair point. Yeah his last few years haven’t been exactly glorious.

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        Kinda cute kinda sad their legacy will probably outlive them by far

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      That stupidity is (kinda) lost in time, tho.

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    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.

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    The packages in Debian stable are also about 30 years old.

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    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.

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    Happy birthday!

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    Happy Birthday to the best linux distro out there!

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