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 hadnt really caught on yet –...
