Anniversary: 29 years of Debian and soon 18 years of Ubuntu

Yesterday, August 16st, 2022, Debian Project and its User Community, they celebrated in style new anniversary more than first announcement about Debian. Yes, this date is not associated with the launch of a past version 0.1 or 1.0, but to the old announcement made by Ian Murdock el August 16st, 1993, where I express the imminent termination of a new Linux Distro, called Debian Linux.

Since then, every August 16 the Debian Day, in honor of what is now known as the Debian project, which is considered one of the largest and most influential free software projects in the ecosystem of free and open projects around the world. Which obviously includes its main product, which is the Debian GNU/Linux Distro, a free operating system (OS) for computers.

And since, this month of August and next month October Is celebrated the 29th and 18th anniversary of “Debian and Ubuntu”, we take this opportunity to recommend you to explore some previous related content about others, after finishing this present post:

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Celebration of the 29th and 18th anniversary of Debian and Ubuntu

About Debian, Ubuntu and their anniversaries

About Debian

for those passionate debian users, and in honor of the already finished «"Debian Day" This year 2022 , we offer you some important links, for your exploration, use and enjoyment of your community.

About Ubuntu

for those passionate Ubuntu users, and in honor of the next «"Ubuntu Day" This year 2022 , we offer the following informative tips and some important links, for your exploration, employment and enjoyment of your community:

Unlike Debian Day, the Ubuntu Day does not refer to the start of the project as such, but to the launch of the first stable and functional Ubuntu Distro for public usewhich was Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog). which was released on the date of 20th October 2004.
Ubuntu, unlike Debian, is more of a corporate and commercial project, than a community and non-profit. Since, from its origins, its sponsor has been the British company Canonical (owned by Mark Shuttleworth), who has worked in the company of former Debian Project developers since the beginning.
The 8 of July of 2004, Mark Shuttleworth and the company Canonical, announced the creation of the Ubuntu distribution. Meanwhile he July 8, 2005, announced the creation of the Ubuntu Foundation.

Useful links about Ubuntu

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Summary

In short, both yesterday and in 2 months, they are and will be 2 memorable dates worth celebrating for each one of the great communities of each GNU / Linux Distro. And with regards to Ubuntu, because surely both here and on other websites, we will be attentive to continue supporting them, and continue spreading, as usual, their news, projects, and launches.

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