QUICK, IS IT DEBIAN, DREAMCAST, OR ESTROGEN
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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Spotted this guy after going through an old box of CDs.
Crazy that this was only 6 years ago
There's also a German game studio, and Dreamcast preventively used a blue spiral in Europe to prevent a trademark clash
yes
world of goo...
And the cool thing is: not only were you able to install this 6 years ago, you were able to install it 16 years as well!
2009 was only 6 years ago, so I'm not sure what 1999 has to do with it :P
No joke -- Debian is a treasure trove of archival releases. Ask any other distro if they still have stable tarballs from kernel v2, and the answer will simply be "no".
Lenny has landed!
Damn it. They misspelled our platform name 😩
I would frame it
what a ugly tux xD
I mean, at least it’s not an AI slop Tux on a clickbait article that says, “Forget Windows 11 - [INSERT OBSCURE, BORDLINE USELESS DISTRO THAT WON’T LAST TWO YEARS] cured my cancer”.
Like, I love Linux, and obscure distros have their place (I’d be cool with a review), but then there’s those horrible articles that mirror the overall devolution into soullessness that the internet has become.
On another note, those same sites with articles like, “Forget Windows 11 - Windows XP 2025 Classic Edition Ultimate is what we need”, with UI mockups where I’d rather cut off my right hand with a circle saw than use them if they were real.
slop is bad and that i always ignored, even if it came from humans or now ai. i like good ai.
Personally, I believe there barely is such a thing as “good AI” - I have a dislike of image and audio generation; while I avoid LLMs, I admit they have their occasional uses.
tux be starin'
It looks like estradiol valerate packaging
Whoa. They were doing DVD-ROM distros as late as '09?!
https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/
In the days of Woody (3.0), we started producing DVDs reliably for every release from r5 onwards. Later releases included both CDs and DVDs as a matter of course.
Starting with Etch (4.0), we started making multi-architecture CDs/DVDs which would boot and allow for installation on more than one type of computer.
Starting with Lenny (5.0), we added Blu-ray (BD) images, downloadable only in jigdo format for the sake of mirror space and bandwidth. We also regularly produced live images - bootable images that run completely from the CD/DVD/USB stick and do not need to be installed to your hard disk. (More details...)
Starting with Squeeze (6.0), we started building CDs and DVDs for kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, marking the first released non-Linux port of Debian.