[Ilugc] Re: Happy Birth Day Debian
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Sun Aug 17 11:37:40 2008
On 12:19:52 Aug 16, p sriram wrote:
maybe, nitpicking, but how is this (aug 16 1993) the birthday of debian? it
is
merely the day on which it was announced - the (practically unusable) release
Related but hijacking the thread.
It is curious how the 'Debian' name came about.
Ian Murdock's girlfriend who he perhaps later married. ;)
Debrah is her name.
(weird English this)
Now it is left as an exercise how the name came about. ;)
A very nice sounding name I must admit.
-Girish
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