Re:Debian turns 23
by corford on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:04AM
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I'm old enough to remember all the "Debian is dying" posts on Slashdot back in the day. As a very happy convert since the potato days, it's amazing how far Debian has come and a testament to the power of free software. Go Debian!
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> I'm old enough to remember all the "Debian is dying" posts
Sadly, the Ian (Ian Murdock) in Debian did pass away (death had something to do with police). http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-mu...
Potato was my first eyesore as well. Win98 kept on crashing on me, so one day I borrowed the CD from one of my professors' desk and tried installing. Three days later after lots of probing for my network card and then lots of elinks browsing to get the xfree86 configuration working, I ended up with my first graphical interface. (xterm, running xeyes)
Good old days!