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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 the spirit
Since many people have asked: Debian is pronounced
of Linux and
GNU.
He sent out an open invitation tO other software developers; asking them to contribute to
software
Ide.bi.&nl. It"s named after the creator of Debian;
Ian
distribution based on the Linux kernel, which was relatively new back then_
Debian was meant to be carefully and
Murdock; and his wife,
Debra:
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 to become
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 nmdebian Org
and contributors_debian org shows
list of all contributors and teams who work on the Debian distribution:
The Debian Project has
caretully organized_structure
For more information on how the Debian project looks from the inside, please visit the Developers'
Corner:
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