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<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Community celebrates its 19th birthday</define-tag>
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<define-tag release_date>2012-08-16</define-tag>
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#use wml::debian::news
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<p>
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The Debian community is pleased to celebrate its 19th birthday since Ian Murdock's original
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6">founding
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announcement</a>.
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Quoting from the
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html">official project history</a>:
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<q>The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that
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time, the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be
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a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.</q>
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<p>
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A lot has happened to the project and its community in the past nineteen
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years. There have been eleven releases - most recently <a href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20110205a">
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Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q></a> in February 2011 - and a huge amount of free software packaged. The
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current <q>unstable</q> branch consists of more than 37,000 binary packages
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for the amd64 architecture alone - over 46 GB of Free/Libre Software!
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Since last year's birthday new steps to portability have been made;
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/ports/">11 official ports</a> are now available,
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amongst which Debian/kFreeBSD deserves a special mention for successfully
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integrating a non-Linux kernel within the project.
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Debian 7.0, codenamed Wheezy, was frozen in July 2012, following a time-based freeze policy,
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and currently the main activity throughout the project is squashing the
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remaining RC bugs. Again, Debian will strive to maintain its goals of technical
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excellence, accountability, and above all, freedom.
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This has been made possible by the efforts of the strong community developed around Debian.
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Besides more than 1,000 Debian Developers and Maintainers from all over the globe,
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there are in excess of 12,000 registered accounts for the
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<a href="http://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth collaboration platform</a>, and that
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doesn't even include all those people contributing with <a href="http://i18n.debian.org/">translations</a>
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or <a href="http://www.debian.org/Bugs/">bug reports</a> (and sometimes patches for them)
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and all those users helping others via our <a href="http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/">mailing lists</a>,
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<a href="http://forums.debian.net/">forums</a> and <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/">IRC channels</a>.
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As a project, we would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our
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users and contributors, and of course our upstream developers. All of
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them are helping to make Debian a great experience and a great project!
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</p>
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<p>
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The Debian Project continues to
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/intro/help"> welcome contributions</a>
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in all forms, from everyone, encouraging people to download, use, modify
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and distribute its source code hoping that it will prove useful.
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</p>
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<h2>Contact Information</h2>
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<p>For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
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<a href="$(HOME)/">http://www.debian.org/</a> or send mail to
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<press@debian.org>.</p>
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