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How it all started
It was in August 1993
when Ian Murdock started working on a new operating system which would be made openly; in
Since many people have asked: Debian is
the spirit of Linux and GNU
He sent out an open invitation to other software developers, asking them to contribute t0 a
pronounced
'debi.znl. It's named after the creator of
software distribution based on the Linux kernel, which was relatively new back then: Debian was meant to be carefully
Debian,
lan Murdock; and his wife;
Debra:
and conscientiously put together; and to be maintained and supported with similar care 
embracing an open design;
contributions
and support from the Free Software community-
It started as
small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers and gradually grew t0 become
well-organized community of dlevelopers
contributors, and users_
Read te complete History
Developers and Contributors
Debian is an all-volunteer organization:
More than thousand active developers spread around the_world work on Debian in their spare time.
Few of us have actually met in person
Instead
we communicate primarily through email (mailing lists at lists debian org) and IRC (channel #debian at irc debian org).
The complete list of officia
Debian members can be found on nndebian Org
and contributors debian org shows
list of all contributors and teams who work on the Debian distribution:
The Debian Project has
carefully organized structure
For more information on how the Debian project looks from the inside; please visit the Developers
Corner:
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