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Episode 4:02: Bits From Debian


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  • 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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    • Dan's new ๐ŸŽค Shure audio interface
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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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            • List of Debian Project Leaders
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