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Debian 0.01 through Debian 0.90 were released between August and December of 1993.
The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. (There is also a scanned printout of that announcement.) At that time, the whole concept of a "distribution" of Linux was new.
"Debian 0.91 was released in January 1994.
He joined the project in 1994, and continued to be an active contributor until his passing.
"Debian 0.93 Release 6 happened in November 1995 and was the last a.out release.
1.1 Buzz released June 1996 (474 packages, 2.0 kernel, fully ELF, dpkg)
Wichert Akkerman succeeded Ian Jackson as Debian Project Leader in January of 1999.
Debian 2.1 was released on 09 March, 1999, after being delayed by a week when a few last-minute issues arose.
He was the maintainer of many core packages (such as cron) since he joined Debian in 1999.
Debian 2.2 (Potato) was released August 15th, 2000 for the Intel i386, Motorola 68000 series, alpha, SUN Sparc, PowerPC and ARM architectures.
Corel sold its Linux division in the first quarter of 2001, Stormix declared bankruptcy on January 17th 2001, and Progeny ceased development of its distribution on October 1st, 2001.
The freeze for the next release started on July 1st 2001.
Debian 3.0 (woody) was released July 19th, 2002 for the Intel i386, Motorola 68000 series, alpha, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, HP PA-RISC, IA-64, MIPS, MIPS (DEC) and IBM s/390 architectures.
November 2002: Fire burnt Debian server
Before the next release the DebConf annual meeting continued with the fourth conference, Debconf3 taking place in Oslo from July 18th to July 20th 2003 with over one hundred and twenty participants, with a DebCamp preceding it, from July 12th to July 17th.
Starting 17:00 UTC on November 19th, 2003, four of the project's main Web servers for bug tracking, mailing lists, security and Web searches have been compromised.
He was the lead maintainer of the MIPS and MIPSEL port and he had also contributed at length in the debian-installer long before he became a Debian developer in 2004.
The sixth DebConf, Debconf5 was held in Espoo, Finland, from July 10th to July 17th, 2005 with over three hundred participants.
The seventh DebConf, Debconf6 was held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, from May 14th to May 22nd, 2006 with around two hundred participants.
Debian 4.0 (etch) was released April 8th, 2007 for the same number of architectures as in sarge.
The eighth DebConf, Debconf7, was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 17th to 23th, 2007 with over four hundred participants.
The ninth DebConf, Debconf8, was held in Mar de Plata, Argentina, from August 10th to 16th, 2008 with over two hundred participants.
The tenth DebConf, Debconf9, was held in Cáceres, Spain, from July 23th to 30th, 2009 with over two hundred participants.
After the project decided, the 29th of July 2009, to adopt time-based freezes so that new releases would be published the first half of every even year.
Debian 6.0 (squeeze) was released February 6th, 2011.
April 2011: Adrian von Bidder died
During the Debian Conference DebConf11, in July 2011, the "multiarch support" was introduced.
Debian 7.0 (wheezy) was released May 4th, 2013.
Clytie Siddall died in February 2015.
Debian 8.0 (Jessie) was released April 25th, 2015.
The sixteenth DebConf Debconf15, with DebCamp and the Open Weekend, took place in Heidelberg, Germany, from 9 to 22 August 2015.
Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian Project and its community, died in December 2015.
The seventeenth DebConf Debconf16 was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 23 June to 9 July 2016 (preceded by DebCamp and DebianDay). It was the first DebConf in Africa.
Debian 9.0 (Stretch) was released June 17th, 2017.
The nineteenth DebConf Debconf18 - the first DebConf in Asia - was held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, from 21 July to 5 August 2018, traditionally preceded by the DebCamp and an Open Day for the public.
Debian 10.0 (Buster) was released July 6th, 2019.
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