I'm fairly certain that my current Debian installation dates from ~2006, whenever I tired of running Gentoo for its amd64 support and returned to Debian, which

I'm fairly certain that my current Debian installation dates from ~2006, whenever I tired of running Gentoo for its amd64 support and returned to Debian, which I had used from 2001-2004. It is wonderful that these distributions maintain an ongoing upgrade path that lets us move smoothly through our computing lives limited disruption. Support your local distros and package maintainers! (Typing this comment reminded me that I hadn't donated to Debian in ages. Just did.)