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s in August 1993,when Ian Murdock started working on a new operating system which would
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them to contribute to a software distribution based on the Linux kernel; which
creator of Debian, Ian Murdock; and his Wife
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Debra;
be maintained
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rted as a small; tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers and gradually grew to become a large, well-organized community of developers,
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