Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock.

It was on 16 August 1993 that Ian Murdock was [1]announced and has continued on since while also serving as the basis for Ubuntu Linux and countless other Debian derivatives over the years.

Some Debian screenshots from Phoronix content over the years:

While Linux has been the main focus of Debian over the 33 year history, let's not forget about [2]Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and [3]Debian GNU/Hurd too.

Ian Murdock after his time with Debian and having moved on to [4]Project Indiana at Sun Microsystems.

More commentary to commemorate 33 years of Debian Linux can be found via [5]Debian.org .

Debian 14 Forky remains under development for its expected release next year as the successor to Debian 13 Trixie.



[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian_kfreebsd

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-hurd-2015

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Project+Indiana

[5] https://bits.debian.org/2026/08/debian-turns-33.html