Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, > > With the upcoming Debian 10th Birthday event, I'm wondering if there is > an inaugural email or some other document that marks the start of the > Debian project, the way a certain email message from Linus Torvalds is > frequently cited as the "public" beginning for the Linux kernel. > > Searching Debian's archives, I've found these which are of some > interest: > > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-1998/msg00022.html> > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/1999/debian-publicity-199906/msg00034.html> > > I'm still looking for a single message (or other verifiably-dated > document) that marks the "let's start Debian" from Ian Murdock.
See here: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=CBusDD.MIK%40unix.portal.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H. Peter Anvin
