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and Contributors
and Organizalions supporing Debian
all started
August 1993, when Ian Murdock started working on a new operating system which would
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asking them to contribute to a software distribution based on the Linux kernel, which
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ively new back then: Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together
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maintained and supported with similar care, embracing an open design, contributions, and
rom the Free Software community:
as a small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers and gradually grew to become a large, well-organized community of developers,
ors, and users
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pers and Contributors
an all-volunteer organization. More than thousand active developers spread around_the_World work on Debian in their spare time. Few of
net in person. Instead, we communicate primarily through email (mailing lists at lists debian org) and IRC (channel #debian at irc debian.0=
plete list of official Debian members can be found on nm debian org
and contributors debian org shows a list of all contributors and teams
the Debian distribution;