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Did it already have the .deb package format and the amazing apt repositories at this point? To me that is what blew my mind; the transitive dependency managemen

Did it already have the .deb package format and the amazing apt repositories at this point? To me that is what blew my mind; the transitive dependency management and automatic upgrades made me not touch an RPM based distro again. I don't recall using this first release, I was probably still on SLS or something then, and I believe I briefly played with RedHat... But I did use it maybe a year or two later, and haven't stopped (okay, sometimes I use Ubuntu, shh).

mr_sturd 3y ago
Looks like the .deb format was introduced in 0.93[0]. Can't really tell if that was the time `dpkg` was introduced, in 1994. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format)
lproven 3y ago
`.deb` was there basically from the start -- it was already in v1.0, AFAIK. APT didn't appear until Debian 2.1 "Slink" in 1999.