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New Debian leader wants to improve communications

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Sam Varghese
May 1, 2015

The last two people to lead the Debian GNU/Linux project have had a pleasant task first up – presiding over a new release. Back in 2013, Lucas Nussbaum was hardly a month old in the job when Wheezy was released. And this month, Neil McGovern took over on 17 April and saw version 8.0, otherwise known as Jessie, released eight days later.

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