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How it all started
It was in August 1993, when lan
Since many
Murdock started working on
new
people have asked:
operating system which would be made
Debian is
openly; in the spirit of Linux and GNU.
pronounced
He sent out an open invitation
other
"debi.&n. It's
soitware
developers, asking them to
named after the
contribute to
software distibution
creator of Debian;
based on the Linux kerne_
which was
Ian Murdock; and
relatively new back then.
ebian was
his wife , Debra:
meant to be carefully 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 to become
large, well-organized community
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