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Happy 20th birthday Debian
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Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Debian has forums? I never knew that. I always use debian-users or #debian. To be honest one of my favorite things about debian is using bts from the commandline or just plain email to submit/query/track bug reports and never having to use forums for bug reporting.
http://forums.debian.net/ is one forum. I'm not sure if it is actually a part of the Debian project or just something that grew alongside. Can be useful sometimes, but if your present channels work for you then I'd suggest you might want to do without the 'noise'[1] [1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=106389 PS: never ceases to amaze me that you can download an iso, boot a computer, install an operating…
debian.net projects are unofficial. sometimes they graduate to official debian.org projects.
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#23Happy birthday to my first permanent GNU/Linux distribution, from Etch all the way to Jessie. It's --you've, we've-- come a long way. I hope to see the community remain as strong as ever. The Debian forums were always my weapon of last resort when Google didn't have the answer to my problem, and not once was I let down. And best of luck to the new DPL!
My first release was Potato. I still remember downloading so many (3? 6?) CDs... God, I feel old. I don't use Debian much these days, certainly not as a desktop, but it will forever be the "real" Linux distribution in my heart. Without the ongoing work of umpteen Debian package managers, you wouldn't have Ubuntu (and all its humongous downstream), Knoppix, and so on.
You were lucky.
I had to install my first Debian hit (1.1 / buzz) via recycled floppies downloaded over a 33.6k dialup.
There is not a single time at my life since where I haven't had a Debian installation somewhere since (currently have 46 machines running it at my command).
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#24We had cake at the office today in honor of Debians 20th birthday. Of course I had to keep reminding everyone why and what Debian was but it was still nice. :)
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#25Happy birthday to my first permanent GNU/Linux distribution, from Etch all the way to Jessie. It's --you've, we've-- come a long way. I hope to see the community remain as strong as ever. The Debian forums were always my weapon of last resort when Google didn't have the answer to my problem, and not once was I let down. And best of luck to the new DPL!
My first release was Potato. I still remember downloading so many (3? 6?) CDs... God, I feel old. I don't use Debian much these days, certainly not as a desktop, but it will forever be the "real" Linux distribution in my heart. Without the ongoing work of umpteen Debian package managers, you wouldn't have Ubuntu (and all its humongous downstream), Knoppix, and so on.
I started out with... Rex I think. Or maybe Buzz? I kept the CD's out of nostalgia for a while, but may have finally got rid of them. I liked it so much that, despite not having a lot of skills, I signed up to help, and packaged up a few things. Debian was an awesome learning experience, and a great "escalator" in that I came in with not a lot of knowledge, and by the time I left, knew a whole lot more about a variety of things. I know I'm not the only one for whom it was such a formative experience.
My first Linux experience was downloading Slackware over a slow modem line (I want to say 14.4, but it was a while ago) onto floppies.
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#26Use it on all my home machines since 2004. Provides very pragmatic engineering - by the time changes hit you the noise has been filtered out.
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#27Debian is the center of my linux universe. Happy Birthday and THANKS! to all who contribute to what is the best representation of what computing freedom should be.
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#28Debian was my first linux distribution. It took me perhaps a week to download the 7 CDs for Woody (I don't think many of them ever actually got used). I was only 12 and really didn't have a clue what I was doing. My main memories are probably more of frustration than enlightenment... However, as the basis of Knoppix (the first linux distribution that I had much success with) it was a huge pillar in my (and no doubt m…
I started hacking around in linux at 12 too!
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#29OMG! Has it been 20 years already? Time flies when you're having fun!
Re: Happy 20th birthday Debian
#30I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and I keep wondering to myself why I didn't switch much sooner.
The lack of any integration with a specific desktop environment, and having pure GNU and Linux underneath a pure DE is something that is really quite satisfying. It gives you modularity and customizability without having anything break or feel out of place; something that often happened to me while switching DEs in Ubuntu.
It really has been the benchmark for all free software so far. And the Toy-Story themed releases are a nice touch.
Happy birthday, Debian.