We crea_t_ed a new banner for Debian’s birt_h_day. At 15 y_e_a_r_s th_e_y_’_re one of the olde_s_t distros still in _a_ctive usage. What has made Debia_n_ uniqu_e_ is that its m_a_intainer_s_ are passiona_t_e about two things – fr_e_e softwa_r_e and the OSS philosophy and also about t_e_chnical excelence. Debian is the foundation of Ubuntu so of course we’d have to do something to celebrate their birthday. The banner itself was created by Kenneth Wimer. I took it and overlaid it onto an existin_g_ Ubuntu banner so that it looked more like a real banner hun_g_ up over a doorway like you might do for a birthday party.


Oddly enough, the night before I put the banner up I had this crazy dream that a bunch of Debian developers were chasing me shouting about LZW compression algorithm patents and I was trying to justify myself by pointing out that the patent expired and that LZW was ok now. It’s always funny when you wake up remembering your dreams.

If you have no clue what I’m talking about that you haven’t looked closely enough or you just aren’t clever. Sorry. :-/ If you do get it then be sure to post a comment here so I know.