Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/941744/

On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock announced
a new distribution to the comp.os.linux.development Usenet newsgroup:

This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new
Linux release, which I’m calling the Debian Linux Release. This is
a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other
words, I didn’t simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new
release. I was inspired to put together this release after running
SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and after
much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start
from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I’m
still looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent
sources for everything), and I’d like to get some feedback before I
add the “fancy” stuff.

After 30 years, Debian is still going strong.