Debian Project News - August 18th, 2008

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Debian Project News
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Debian Project News - August 18th, 2008
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Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

 * Debian turns 15
 * 8th annual Debian Conference finished
 * Freespire 5 to be based on Debian
 * ... and much more.

Debian turns 15

On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock [1]announced a new Linux distribution
named "Debian". 15 years later the project started by him is the
biggest Linux distribution worldwide, offering more than 20 000
software packages maintained by over 1'000 volunteers, supporting more
hardware architectures than any other Linux distribution, and providing
a base for more than twenty active derivatives, like [2]Knoppix,
[3]Skolelinux or [4]Ubuntu.

  1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6
  2: http://www.knoppix.net
  3: http://www.skolelinux.org
  4: http://www.ubuntu.com/