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How it all started
It was in August 1993, when lan Murdock
Since many people
started
working on
new operating system
have asked: Debian is
which would be made openly; in the spirit of
pronounced
Linux and GNU. He sent out an open invitation
{"debi an. It's named
to other software developers, asking them to
after the creator of
contribute to
software distribution based on
Debian, Ian Murdock;
the Linux kernel, which was relatively new back
and his wife ,
Debra
then. Debian was 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 of developers
contrbutors_
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 official Debian members can be found on mdebian 0g,
and contributors
debian org shows
list of all contributors and teams Wo
work on the Debian distribution:
The Debian Project has
carefully organized structure: For more information
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