Happy 0x20th anniversary! A huge thank you to every contributor—past and present—for making Debian the incredible project it is today.
>From Ian Murdock’s vision in 1993 to Trixie’s release, your dedication to free software and collaboration continues to inspire. I not actively contribute nowadays but I always proud with Debian. Again, thank you everyone! Regards, Robbi Nespu On Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 12:21 pm Andreas Tille, <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > Dear Debian community, > > Today we celebrate Debian’s 100000th birthday! > > Before you start wondering about that age — yes, that’s 100000 in > binary, or 0x20 years in hexadecimal. And as we all know, round numbers > simply look cooler. ;-) Debian was founded on 1993-08-16, which > makes today our 0x20 anniversary. > > Over those 0x20 years, many of you have contributed — some for a short > time, others for much longer — helping Debian grow from a small project > into a global effort producing one of the largest and most widely used > Free Software distributions in the world. We’ve packaged software for > everything from tiny embedded devices to massive clusters, while staying > true to our Social Contract and the principles of Free Software. > > This wouldn’t have been possible without the dedication and > collaboration of our contributors and users worldwide. Thank you all for > making Debian what it is today. > > Just last week we saw the latest result of our collective work — the > Trixie release. My warm thanks go out to all involved teams: > - the FTPMaster team for their reliable work, > - the Release team for coordinating the whole release process, > - the Installer team for enabling Debian on diverse hardware, > - the Images team for creating the bootable images, > - the Press team for shouting the news to the world, > - the many developers fixing RC bugs during the release process, > - the developers who created documentation for the release process, > - and the countless translators enabling Debian to be used by > people all over the globe. > And, of course, to everyone I may have missed in this list who did > important work to make Trixie the great release it is. > > A particular thank-you also goes to Ansgar for addressing issues with > the code-signing service and unblocking work on upcoming Linux DSAs. > > Let’s celebrate today — and then enjoy the freedom to upload to unstable > again, aiming for an even greater Forky release. > > Yours, > Andreas. >
