Debian Project News - August 18th, 2008
Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include:
- Debian turns 15
- 8th annual Debian Conference finished
- Freespire 5 to be based on Debian
- ... and much more.
Debian turns 15
On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock announced a new Linux distribution named Debian. 15 years later the project started by him is the biggest Linux distribution worldwide, offering more than 20 000 software packages maintained by over 1'000 volunteers, supporting more hardware architectures than any other Linux distribution, and providing a base for more than twenty active derivatives, like Knoppix, Skolelinux or Ubuntu.
Users, journalists, and Debian Developers congratulated, sometimes just happy, sometimes thoughtfully, and celebrated the birthday of the Debian project worldwide with parties and single day conferences (sometimes even with live streams of the sessions). Even a virtual birthday party was held in Second live (a virtual world powered by Debian) where musicians Blue4u Nowicka and Jaggpro McCann gave concerts as an opener to the virtual party. In Argentina Steve McIntyre, current Debian Project Leader, opened the 8th Debian Conference with a talk describing the current state of the Debian project and the long way it has come until today. His talk is already available as a downloadable video.
The Debian project would like to thank its users and developers for the confidence placed in our distribution over the last 15 years and is looking forward to the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny and many happy returns.
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