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Happy 100000th birthday, Debian
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoDebian isn't always my first choice, but it is my favorite choice when I build systems that need to stand the test of time.
- Yhippa 1y agoDeb and Ian
- AceJohnny2 1y agoRIP Ian
- Pet_Ant 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
- kazinator 1y agoGreat Scott! A reminder in the nick of time. Happy #b10000, TXR. August 2009 - August 2015.
- zevisert 1y agoIt's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we? I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
- lotyrin 1y agoI don't think this happens enough for us to be able to derive descriptive usage, never mind prescriptive rules.
- phyzome 1y agoAll that matters is the last digit, so "th" is correct. In binary you would just have _th and _st.
- jibal 1y ago100000th is syntactically correct. That it's semantically binary rather than decimal is the joke. > I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10 No, of course not ... why would there be? We don't say oneth, twoth, or threeth, we say first (1st), second (2nd), and third (3rd). For all other digits and numbers not ending with 1, 2, or 3 we use th. So zeroth (0th), tenth (10th), hundredth (100th), hundred thousandth (100000th). Stick 0b in front and it's 0b100000th.
- esseph 1y agoI will always have a soft spot in my heart for Debian. It always seemed the most true to a lot of the early Linux/OSS principles.
- andyferris 1y agoI am definitely having a birthday party when I turn 1,000,000. :)
- Agentlien 1y agoThat's a great idea and I might steal it. I even know which song to play. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I%27m_Sixty-Four https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I%27m_Sixty-Four
- yablak 1y agoIngrid Daubechies threw a big party on her 64th birthday and invited all her old students and collaborators; we even had a conference around it.
- germandiago 1y agoCongratulations! Love what this project has done for software. It is amazing.
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- pcloadlett3r 1y ago100000nd* birthday
- jibal 1y agobinary one-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero th
- reactordev 1y agoHappy birthday Debian, RIP Murdock, it’s my go to distro for headless.
- WD-42 1y agoDebian is a gift.
- tra3 1y agoI can’t remember why I picked Debian in early aughts but I’m glad I did. Happy birthday!
- kaycey2022 1y agoCame here expecting a funny new bug or CVE, found a dad joke instead.
- kaycey2022 1y agoAnd yes I’ve found few things as stable as Debian. I dual boot with windows, come back after months to see an update is all i need. Cannot say the same about arch etc.
- xcf_seetan 1y agoHappy birthday Debian!! Still my distro after all these years! :)