Re: What does Debian mean?
At 02:03 PM 10/25/96 +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
>Hi,
>I know this is not terribly important but I was wondering where the name debian
>came from. Maybe those that have been in the project long could share that with
>those of us that joined when debian had been underway for a long time already.
The Debian project was started by Ian Murdock - his wifes name was Debra (I
think that's the spelling of it - not sure) so hence forth Debian was
formed. And as such it should be pronounced "Deb-ian" and not "Dee-b-an" as
so many do :-)
Regards,
...Karl
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