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When I started this job 15 years ago, Debian was a really big deal. The whole Linux community paid attention to Debian elections, and this magazine even had a regular monthly column devoted to Debian affairs. It would not be an exaggeration to reveal that I even knew a guy who had the Debian spiral tattooed on his neck.

Dear Reader,

When I started this job 15 years ago, Debian was a really big deal. The whole Linux community paid attention to Debian elections, and this magazine even had a regular monthly column devoted to Debian affairs. It would not be an exaggeration to reveal that I even knew a guy who had the Debian spiral tattooed on his neck.

Over the years, though, the Debian project has faded from the foreground, with Arch Linux filling the über-geek niche and enterprise variants from Red Hat and others capturing the greater share of media attention.

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