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Introduction

In fact, Dwarf used this system for all his network activities until he lost his

computer to lightning two years later.

Once a new machine arrived a decision had to be made. Although the SLS

system had been more successful than Slackware, the success rate was still

down around 3 successes for every 4 attempts. Searching the various CDs in his

growing collection, Dwarf discovered Debian. Although the release available

on that CD had no PPP support, what was provided was much more successful

at building the collected source files than either of the previous distributions!

Finding the debian devel mailing list and upgrading his system to a version of

Debian with PPP support got Dwarf working as a developer, and he has been

working with Debian ever since.

After that short history of the author, a short history of Debian seems to be

in order. The following was provided by Ian Murdock, the creator of Debian: