Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...
  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I remember, I was 23yo and in a BSc Computer Science. At the time our teachers were more BSD, SVR4, Minix, and of course HP-UX, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, etc. They didn’t like Linux, but us, students, would download kernel and gnu utilities on like 8 floppies, to install on 486, and then the 10 floppies for X11, what a nightmare it was, like Arch today :)

    My first kernel install was v0.99. What a time :) I used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and now MX (still based on Debian) for a long time.

    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
      141·
      1 year ago

      what a nightmare it was, like Arch today

      Disagree. Arch is smooth sailing in comparison. More like installing DOS in the early 90s.

      • Magister@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know, I installed Arch from the base archlinux-x86_64.iso followed the wiki and after boot I had a simple text login, I needed to configure ethernet network/systemd etc then install X and Xfce and all kind of stuff, like in the 90s :)

        I installed DOS dozens of time, in the beginning it was two 5"1/4 floppies and super easy to install, but there was no GUI nor network

        • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          You also had to manually cut your partitions, then to manually setup everything after install - himem, mouse, sound… It was mostly loading drivers and in Arch it’s installing and configuring packages. Sure, it’s more complex due to vastly more possibilities but the actual doing is pretty similar. And there was no wiki back then. ;)

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Love Debian. Been running Stable on servers, and Testing or SID on laptops/desktops, for over a decade. Same installs still running and upgrading. Love the DFSG and all the platforms supports.

    I count Debian as proof humans are not irredeemable.

  • 9488fcea02a9
    7·
    1 year ago

    Kinda weird how they kind of just dropped ian murdock’s name in there without any further recognition of his tragic death

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep, I have 6 GNU/Linux distributions running concurrently on a variety of drives and devices and Debian is one of my favourites :)

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I guess people don’t know that Ian Murdock was ghe creator of Debian, with the name coming from his own name and from the name of his partner at the time, Deborah, thus becoming Debian.