Debian turns 30

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

This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-newLinux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This isa release that I have put together basically from scratch; in otherwords, I didn't simply make some changes to SLS and call it a newrelease. I was inspired to put together this release after runningSLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and aftermuch altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to startfrom scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I'mstill looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recentsources for everything), and I'd like to get some feedback before Iadd the "fancy" stuff.

After 30 years, Debian is still going strong.