David Wright wrote: > On Wed 25 Sep 2019 at 18:12:25 (+0200), Sebastian Hyrwall wrote: > > On 2019-09-25 14:36, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > It turns out that Debian is relatively old. I've been using it > > > since 1996 or so, and it was in version 2.1 back then. (I > > > haven't bothered to check this.) > > 1996 takes you back to buzz, the first release, and its successor, rex.
Then it was almost certainly 1997 or even 1998; I remember trying out Debian because of the new (at the time) promise that a major version could be upgraded to a new major version without wiping the filesystem and starting over again. I had been repeatedly bitten on that point by Slackware and Red Hat. -dsr-
