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Named after Deborah and Ian (Deborah was his girlfriend at the time)
by woleium 3y ago
Named after Deborah and Ian (Deborah was his girlfriend at the time)
- Midnight1938 3y ago[flagged]
- snvzz 3y agoPerhaps respect. e.g. I very much prefer to remember him for Debian.
- random467 3y ago[dead]
- themerone 3y agoBecause most people aren't into conspiracy theories.
- edgyquant 3y agoThe guy was sexually assaulted and then accused himself of sexual assault which got him “cancelled.” I followed him on Twitter back then, it’s hard to imagine it not being suicide after all of that.
- kergonath 3y agoHow would that be relevant to what he did 20 years before? Also, because these conspiracy theories are bullshit? His death was a tragedy and a symptom of our times, but there’s no point banging on about it here.
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- echelon_musk 3y agoI embarrassingly used to pronounce it as "deebian" before being schooled by a graybeard.
- fortyseven 3y agoShit, I say it like that! OH GOD, MY WORLD IS IN SHAMBLES. :D
- joemi 3y agoI don't think I've ever said it aloud, but that's how I always read it in my head.
- nicoburns 3y agoI always assumed it was pronounced "day-bian" until I heard the above story of how the name came to be.
- midoridensha 3y agoYes, and this was a terrible idea. Deb and Ian ended up divorcing. Not a good omen for the future. Ian should have picked a better name. Edit: corrected history of their relationship
- steppi 3y agoWhile a college student, Murdock founded the Debian project in August 1993, and wrote the Debian Manifesto in January 1994. Murdock conceived Debian as a Linux distribution that embraced open design, contributions, and support from the free software community. He named Debian after his then-girlfriend (later wife) Debra Lynn, and himself.[3] They later married, had three children, and divorced in January 2008.[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock