On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock announced the Debian Project to the world. Three decades (and a bit) later, Debian is still going strong, built by a worldwide community of developers, contributors, and users who believe in a free, universal operating...| Debian Project
Each year on August the 16th, we celebrate the Debian Project Anniversary. Several communities around the world join us in celebrating "Debian Day" with local events, parties, or gatherings. So, how about celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the Debian Project in 2025 in your city? As the 16th of August falls on a Saturday this year, we believe it is great timing to gather people around your event. We invite you and your local community to organize a Debian Day by hosting an event with talks, ...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for August. Happy Birthday Debian On 16th of August Debian celebrated its 31th birthday. Since I'm unable to write a better text than our great publicity team I'm simply linking to their article for those who might have missed it: https://bits.debian.org/2024/08/debian-turns-31.html Removing more packages from unstable Helmut Grohne argued for more aggressive package removal and sought consensus on a way forward. He provided six examples of pro...| Bits from Debian
As the expression goes, "Time flies when you are having fun", meaning you do not normally account for the passage of time when you are distracted and enjoying yourself. The expression is a well established English idiom, though today for a moment the Debian Project pauses to reflect on that expression. It has been 31 years now that we have been around. It has been 31 amazing years of fun and amazement in watching the world around us grow and ourselves grow into the world. Let us tell you, we ...| Bits from Debian
Debian Celebrates 30 years! We celebrated our birthday this year and we had a great time with new friends, new members welcomed to the community, and the world. We have collected a few comments, videos, and discussions from around the Internet, and some images from some of the DebianDay2023 events. We hope that you enjoyed the day(s) as much as we did! "Debian 30 years of collective intelligence" -Maqsuel Maqson Brazil Pouso Alegre, Brazil Maceió, Brazil Curitiba, Brazil The cake is there. :...| Bits from Debian
Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian laid out guidelines for how this new release would work, what approach the release would take regarding its size, manner of upgrades, installation procedures; and with great care of consideration for users without Internet connection. Unaware that he had ...| Bits from Debian
Today is Debian's 29th anniversary. We recently wrote about some ideas to celebrate the DebianDay, and several events have been planned in more than 14 locations. You can join the party or organise something yourselves too! Today is also an opportunity for you to start or resume your contributions to Debian. For example, you can have a look at our list of Debian Teams, install the how-can-i-help package and see if there is a bug in any of the software that you use that you can help to fix, st...| Bits from Debian
