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Also, for those who weren't previously acquainted: Ian was the "ian" in Debian, the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu. He started work at Do
by spb 11y ago
Also, for those who weren't previously acquainted: Ian was the "ian" in Debian, the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu. He started work at Docker in November, which is why they are publishing this.
- raverbashing 11y ago> the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu I'm sure this sounds as vinyl scratching to a lot of ears Debian stands on its own, though that statement is correct
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoIt's probably the single most ported distribution, from a variety of remixes for desktop, netbook and recovery uses alike to usually being the first target for every microcontroller and single-board.
- agumonkey 11y agoAnd Ubuntu's "trunk" too, unless you counted it as a remix already.
- mverwijs 11y agoAnd ported to the most hardware architectures too. https://www.debian.org/ports/#portlist-released https://www.debian.org/ports/#portlist-released
- cookiecaper 11y agoDebian even had a BSD flavor for a while. https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
- vezzy-fnord 11y agokFreeBSD is still alive, though not a formal Debian port.
- aidenn0 11y agoAnd Nexenta is a debian based Illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distribution.
- qwertyuiop924 11y ago"of course it runs debian" :-D
- jodrellblank 11y agoOS rivalry with https://www.netbsd.org/ https://www.netbsd.org/ ?
- qwertyuiop924 11y agoThat was the joke.
- mkhpalm 11y agoI think this is a good visualization for things like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#/media/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline_with_Android.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#/media/File...
- mawburn 11y agoI never knew that, that's pretty neat. I was curious where the Deb came from: >It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. https://www.debian.org/intro/about https://www.debian.org/intro/about
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- noobermin 11y agoFor a little on the history of Linux and unix in Mr. Murdock's life, I found this piece by him a very nice read. http://ianmurdock.com/post/how-i-came-to-find-linux/ http://ianmurdock.com/post/how-i-came-to-find-linux/
- mbubb 11y agoNice. Thanks for this.
- Avshalom 11y agoI mean it's hard to rank these things but Debian has been so so very important to the whole GNU/Linux/FOSS/Anything-But-Microsoft endeavor.
- cbd1984 11y agoDebian and Slackware are the two oldest distros still around, beating out Red Hat by roughly a year. They form the inspiration and, in some key ways, the basis of many modern distros, and Debian especially created apt-get and greatly increased the number of people familiar with dependency-tracking package management. (I honestly can't find anything saying the Debian people invented dependency-tracking package management. FreeBSD's ports system might predate it. However, Debian brought the idea to more people than FreeBSD was able to.) Ubuntu still uses Debian packages, like a number of other distros, and Debian has seen other distros rise and fall. Ian Murdock therefore had a direct hand in creating core infrastructure we rely on to this day, whether we know it or not.
- dorfsmay 11y agoOther OSes had package managers with dependency resolution before Linux even existed, eg: AIX. Debian packaging was an amazing step forward in the Linux world when it appeared.