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Debian Users
How it all started
It was in August 1993
when Ian Murdock started working on
new operating system which would
Since many people have asked: Debian is
be made openly; in the spirit of Linux and GNU. He sent out an open invitation tO other software
pronounced / 'de.bi.anl. It's named after the
developers; asking them to contribute t0 a software distribution based on the Linux kernel, which
creator of Debian
Ian Murdock; and his wife
was relatively new back then_
Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together;
Debra_
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 to become
large, well-organized community of developers;
contributors, and users_
Read the 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 nm debian org
and contributors debian org shows a list of all contributors and teams who
work on the Debian distribution:
The Debian Project has
carefully prganized structure: For more information on how the Debian project looks from the inside, please visit the Developers"
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