Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still
OS PLATFORMS
One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive
This is a quiet time of year in tech circles – perhaps explaining why, 25 and 33 years ago, the people behind two ambitious operating system projects kicked them off.
Last weekend, the Debian project turned 33 years old. The Linux kernel first appeared in September 1991, so it was not quite two years old when Ian Murdock announced the new distribution. (Indeed, the term "distribution" itself hadn't really caught on yet – his announcement only uses the word as an adjective.) Sadly, Murdock died in 2015, before his project became one of the world's most widely used forms of Linux in the world.
We examined the project's history and success when it turned 30, and it continues to thrive.
It's not the oldest maintained distro: that distinction goes to Slackware,...
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