Episode 4:02: Bits From Debian

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Coming up in this episode

• An NVMe for me
• The Shure Next To You
• Of course, the History of Debian
• Our Thoughts of it over the monthSSSS

0:00 Cold Open
1:04 A Few Good Deals
16:14 The History of Debian | The Beginning
18:00 The History of Debian | 1993 - 1994
22:23 The History of Debian | 1995 - 1998
26:15 The History of Debian | 1999 & Y2k
31:11 The History of Debian | 2001 - 2009
36:40 The History of Debian | 2010 - 2020
42:39 The History of Debian | 2021 - 2027
45:33 A Month of Debian 12 Thoughts
1:13:24 - Next Time | Fedora Silverblue & Topics
1:18:03 Stinger

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The History of Debian

• Before Debian there was Softlanding Linux.
• August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock's announcement that started it all.
• January 1994, Ian releases the Debian Manifesto.
• April 1, 1994, Ian was struggling to keep up with it all and needed a break.
• March 1996, Ian steps down as Debian Project Leader. Leaving Bruce Perens to take up the job.
• The FSF pulls sponsorship but later the FSF "resumed cordial relations".
• June 17, 1996, Debian 1.1 is released with the first ever codename based on Toy Story characters. It was named Buzz, after Buzz Lightyear. A list of all the Debian releases.
• February 1, 1997, A board of directors had been elected for Software in the Public Interest.
• February 20, 1997, Debian shows its intent to ratify a constitution.
• July 1, 1997, Debian is really launched into space this time to monitor plant growth in microgravity, sending video and other data back home.
• December 2, 1998, Debian ratifies a Constitution.
• At the beginning of 1999, Wichert Akkerman was elected Debian Project Leader and started with giving Debian a permanent identity.
• Logo on debian.org as of April 14, 1997
• January 24, 1999, the logo license for Captain Blue-Eye, expired again.
• February 4, 1999, a Logo contest announcement!
• May 3, 1999, the submissions were in. Captain Blue-Eye was thought to be too Linux-specific.
• June 8, 1999, The iconic swirl that we see today won the vote.
• July 6, 1999, dpkg version 2, which was hinted at by Ben Collins back in May, is now officially a thing and the specifications are out there boasting a more modular design.
• Debian weathered the Y2k storm with no major problems.
• In October 2001, LAN Comp Systems begin mastering Debian 3.0 on DVD ahead of the official release.
• Debian 3.0 was delayed because of broken boot floppies.
• 2002, the first net installation images were available.
• 2007, through a disagreement with Mozilla on backporting security fixes, would be replaced by the free-software version, Iceweasel.
• 2013, the trailing 0 on the major release is dropped. Minor releases will continue adding the point, as in .1, .2, etc.
• Also in 2013, multi-arch support is added.
• 2020, Jonathan Carter was elected Debian Project Leader and has been reaffirmed three more times, and is currently serving as Leader.
• June 10, 2023, Debian 12 is released, codenamed Bookworm.

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