Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday

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The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian Murdoch’s founding announcement.  Quoting from the official project history:  “The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a ‘distribution’ of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.”

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