11 years ago, a day more or less, I bought an the special issue of CHIP which shipped Debian 1.3.1. I think I’ve tried SuSe and RedHat earlier that year, but this Debian release made me switch away from proprietary products 98% (taxes I still had to do with Windows98). Right now, I am mostly running Ubuntu, which leans heavily on the work of the Debian project.

I celebrated by installing a prerelease of Lenny, Debian’s next stable release, but still testing now, in a virtual box with VirtualBox. Works like a charm, and will allow me in 2009 to finally pick up some packaging work for Debian, and maybe, finally, get Jmol available in Debian main.

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2008/12/11-years-of-debian.html.