Distribution-HOWTO entry for Debian
The entry for Debian in the Distribution-HOWTO stinks. We need to write to
the maintainer Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
I meant to do this for a long time. Could someone please do this, maybe even
someone with a better grasp of how we currently represented ourselves? Bruce?
(BTW: I cut-and-paste this from a zless display in an rxvt into this emacs/vm
buffer. Why the heck do the empty lines vanish?)
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4.3. Debian Linux Distribution
Distributor:
Ian A. Murdock
Net: imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu FTP:
<ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/info>
Provider's Description:
Debian GNU/Linux is a complete and fully-functional Unix-
compatible operating system for the personal
computer--specifically, the IBM PC and compatibles.
Essentially, it is a preliminary release of the GNU operating
system, integrating the finished parts of GNU with the Linux
kernel and completing the system with freely redistributable
software from a number of different sources and systems,
including 4.4BSD-Lite. It is intended to be a freely
redistributable replacement for commercial operating systems,
but it can be used alongside MS-DOS, OS/2, Unix, etc. and can
even reside on the same hard disk with them.
For more information about Debian GNU/Linux, please refer to the
files at <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/info> in the directory or
visit our World Wide Web page at <http://www.debian.org/>.
Internet Access:
Debian GNU/Linux is available via anonymous FTP from
<ftp.debian.org/debian>,
Entry last modified:
23 November 1995
Editor's comments:
The Debian distribution is currently under development by a
``semi-closed'' group of developers (rather then an individual)
and has been adopted as the Free Software Foundation's Linux
distribution.
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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