History Linux Debian

The introduction of Debian Linux for the first time introduced by the inventor Ian Murdock, a college student from Purdue University in the United States on August 16, 1993. The origin of the name Debian comes from a combination of the name Ian by ex-girlfriend Debra Lynn, (Deb and Ian) who became Deb-Ian = Debian.

Beginning, Ian Murdock started the project development by modifying the distribution of SLS (Softlanding Linux System). However, he was not satisfied with the SLS has been modified by him so that he believes that it is better to build the system (Linux distribution) of the zero of the modified SLS. Meanwhile, his friend Patrick Volkerding also modify the SLS. And Patrick managed to create a new distribution that is known by the name "Slackware". The Debian Project grew slowly at first and released a version 0.9x in 1994 and 1995. The transfer to other than i386 architecture began in the year 1995. Version 1.x was started in 1996.

In the year 1996, Bruce Perens replaced Ian Murdoch as Project Leader. In the same year the debian developer Ean Schuessler, took the initiative to form the Debian Social Contract and Debian Free Software Guidelines, provide the basic standards of commitment to the development of the debian distribution. He also formed the organization "Software in the Public Interest" to overshadow the legal and law debian.

At the end of 2000, a project to make changes in the debian archive and release management. And in the same year the developers begin the annual conference and workshop "debconf".

While on the 8th of April 2007, Debian GNU / Linux 4.0 released with code name "Etch". Release the latest version of Debian, 2009, code-named "Lenny". "Deb" is an extension of the Debian software package format and the name most often used for binary packages like that.

Debian packages are standard Unix gzip archive that includes two, or bzipped tar archive lzmaed: one is in control, and other information that contains data. Canonical program to deal with these packages is dpkg, most often via apt / aptitude.

Some of the core is available as a Debian package udebs ("micro-deb"), and usually only used to bootstrap the installation of Debian Linux. Although the file using the file name extension udeb, they comply with the specifications of the same structure as ordinary deb. However, unlike their counterparts deb, just the important functional udeb package file. In particular, the documentation file is usually omitted. udeb package can not be installed on a standard Debian system.

Debian package is also used in the distribution based on Debian, like Ubuntu and others. Currently there have been dozens of Linux distributions to debian-based, one of the most prominent and became a phenomenon is Ubuntu. (Wikipedia)