Congratulations all Debian Community and specially Debian Developers and contributors on this important day for Free and Open Source Software.

On August 16th of 1993, Ian Murdock made a news announcement at Usenet about the creation of “Debian Linux Distribution” (later evolved to “Debian Project”). The Debian Project was reponsible not only for the creation of a great GNU/Linux software distribution, but also for the creation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines – DFSG (used by Open Source Initiative to create the “The Open Source Definition“), and the Debian Social Contract where it stablishes de principles of a FOSS community, including de DFSG itself.

Take some time and show your appreciation too at the Thanks.Debian.net.

Read the original news announcement “New release under development; suggestions requested“.

Read more about Debian History.