<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexander Reichle-Schmehl</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tolimar@debian.org">tolimar@debian.org</a>></span><br>
Date: 2010/8/16<br>Subject: Debian celebrates its 17th birthday<br>To: <a href="mailto:debian-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-announce@lists.debian.org</a><br><br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
The Debian Project <a href="http://www.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/</a><br>
Debian celebrates its 17th birthday <a href="mailto:press@debian.org">press@debian.org</a><br>
August 16th, 2010 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100816" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100816</a><br>
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Debian celebrates its 17th birthday<br>
<br>
The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 17th anniversary of its start.<br>
As the official project history states [1]: "The Debian Project was<br>
officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time,<br>
the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended<br>
Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of<br>
Linux and GNU".<br>
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1: <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro</a><br>
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Over the last seventeen years Debian has grown significantly. Initiated<br>
as a small project with just a handful of developers it now has more<br>
than 1000 contributors from many corners of the globe. Documentation has<br>
been written in numerous languages, and it now has tens of thousands of<br>
software packages, all following the Debian Free Software Guidelines<br>
[2].<br>
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2: <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines</a><br>
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Thanks to the contributions of individual developers, translators,<br>
graphic designers, system administrators, users and many others, Debian<br>
continues to thrive in the wider Free Software ecosystem. Debian is<br>
used by a number of "derivative" distributions that further expand the<br>
reach of Debian's software and Debian's philosophy of putting the user<br>
first.<br>
<br>
Under the auspices of Software In the Public Interest [3] and through<br>
the Debian Partners program [4] Debian continues to work with some of<br>
the largest names in hardware and software development. Debian has<br>
always striven to support a broad range of hardware with high-quality,<br>
well tested software and continues to work with numerous partners in<br>
various industries to do so. Debian is also widely used in the<br>
computational and engineering disciplines in areas such as astronomy,<br>
bioinformatics, and physics.<br>
<br>
3: <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi" target="_blank">http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi</a><br>
4: <a href="http://www.debian.org/partners/" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/partners/</a><br>
<br>
The Debian Project continues to welcome contributions in all forms, from<br>
users to developers, encouraging people to download, use, modify, and<br>
distribute its source code in the hopes that it is useful. The project<br>
will release Debian 6.0, code named "Squeeze", at some point this year<br>
once the hard work of fixing release critical bugs is finished. In the<br>
spirit of the Free Software community, Debian welcomes everyone to<br>
participate in this and all of Debian's activities and looks forward to<br>
the next seventeen years.<br>
<br>
Debian users are invited to use <a href="http://thank.debian.net/" target="_blank">http://thank.debian.net/</a> to express<br>
their gratitude and submitt congratulations.<br>
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