The Debian distribution was first announced on August 16, 1993 by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the “Debian Linux Release”.
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The Debian Project grew slowly at first and released its first 0.9x versions in 1994 and 1995. The first ports to other architectures were begun in 1995, and the first 1.x version of Debian was released in 1996. (Wikipedia/Debian)

Proyek Debian pada awalnya berjalan/berkembang lambat.