“Debian has played a major role as part of the Linux ecosystem,
and it’d be hard to imagine what the world would look like without
it. But it wasn’t always a major player — in fact, Debian
wasn’t even the first Linux distribution. But Debian founder Ian
Murdock did things a bit differently, and that has made all the
difference.“Debian’s history is surprisingly well-documented. The project
was founded in 1993, not long after Slackware Linux, but with a
much different model of development. Debian started with the Debian
Manifesto. (Folks were fond of manifestos in the early days of free
software.)
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