Re: Founding moment for Debian

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

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

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