sunrat Posted August 17, 2018 Posted August 17, 2018 August 16 1993, Ian Murdock announces Debian on comp.os.linux.development. What a long strange trip it's been. Well, probably only 10 years for me. https://bits.debian.org/2018/08/debian-is-25.html 1 Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 17, 2018 Posted August 17, 2018 Happy Birthday to my 2nd favorite Linux. 1 Quote
raymac46 Posted August 17, 2018 Posted August 17, 2018 Although I have been fishing in the Debian ecosystem for more than a decade - starting with Ubuntu - it's only been the last couple of years that I have actually run Debian itself. I use it on my Thinkpad T430. Initially I ran Debian Sid but that was a bit too cutting edge for me. Now I have Debian stable. I couldn't use vanilla out of the box Debian though. I need some non-free firmware to get the wifi working on the Thinkpad. Also, I added Google Chrome. I have some Gnome Shell Extensions too - just to make Gnome 3 a bit more palatable. As an Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and MX-17 user it is great to run the real deal. The netinstall feature is one of the best I have ever used. Because Debian needs some tweaking to get stuff like wifi working in many cases I still think of it as an enthusiast's distro. 1 Quote
wa4chq Posted August 17, 2018 Posted August 17, 2018 I recompiled my first and only kernel when I was using Debian Woody....I had no idea what I was doing but it worked when I rebooted! Happy Birfday Debian! 2 Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 18, 2018 Posted August 18, 2018 I've done many things in my life where I didn't have a clue what I was doing... yet, most of the time, it worked out. 4 Quote
sunrat Posted August 19, 2018 Author Posted August 19, 2018 I've done many things in my life where I didn't have a clue what I was doing... yet, most of the time, it worked out. Indeedly doo. See my sig. 3 Quote
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