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Happy Birthday Debian!

I played around with Potato, started to felt in love with Woody, and since Sarge Debian has been my one and only distro.

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Holy crap, it wasn't until this moment that I realized they're all Toy Story characters...

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Yep https://wiki.debian.org/ToyStory

As I was falling asleep last night I had another realization about this naming scheme that made me laugh pretty hard. I always wondered why Debian unstable was named Sid. https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Sid

Dito, with the difference that I also used RHEL and ArchLinux a lot. But my main box, the one that needed to work: Debian.

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