Today, Debian celebrates its 27th birthday. It is now one of the oldest and most widespread Linux distributions with many offshoots and derivatives while continuing to deliver rock solid stable releases in its own measured pace.

I’ve been a Debian user for 20 years now, 13 of which as a Debian Maintainer. Three months ago, I completed the new member process that I’ve been putting off for so long and finally became a Debian Developer. Things have not changed much since I already had upload rights to the packages that I was maintaining, but now I have access to machines running on arcane architectures and of course, voting rights. Not to mention the right to scratch off an item off the old bucket list.

Happy birthday Debian, thanks for all the good times, here’s to many more!