“It’s a busy time for the members of the Debian Project. Sam
Hocevar took over as the new Debian Project leader in April, right
around the time the long-awaited Debian 4.0 or ‘Etch,’ hit the
streets. And, in mid-June, hundreds of active Debian developers,
contributors and other software visionaries from around the world
will meet, many for the first time, in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the
Debian Project’s annual developer
conference.“The Debian Project was started in August 1993 by Ian Murdock,
and early on he drafted a Debian Manifesto that explained what he
hoped to accomplish…”