Interesting facts about Debian Linux

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Aug 20, 2013

August, 15th 2013 was Debian’s 20th anniversary. The Debian Project is a massive community-driven open-source project devoted to a single goal: build a free Linux operating system. While many folks regularly use Debian operating system as end-users, system admins or developers, you may not know the interesting history and facts behind Debian itself. Below are a list of things that you may not know about Debian GNU/Linux.

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