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Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock

31 December 2015 by Ellak-Editor

With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the ‘ian’ in Debian. Ian started the Debian project in August of 1993, releasing the first versions of Debian later that same year. Debian would go on to become the world’s Universal Operating System, … Read more

How #Debian and other #opensource projects are making #software more trustworthy

12 September 201512 September 2015 by Ellak-Editor

Open-source software is especially trustworthy compared to closed-source software because you can see the source code of the program you’re running. Or can you? You probably aren’t compiling all your software from source—you’re getting packages provided by your Linux distribution. But how do you know those binary packages were actually compiled from that source … Read more