Copyright Linux Magazine ©2002 FEATURE The Importance of Being Debian Why you should care about Linux's great non-commercial distribution by Robert McMillan Eight years ago, as Purdue undergraduate Ian Murdock flipped through a Unix magazine, he came across an intriguing advertisement. It was for a Linux distribution that promised to let you run your Windows applications on the free operating system. Linux had sprung into existence a scant year before and now -- according to the ad -- it could support Windows applications. This seemed too good to be true. It was.The distribution in question -- Murdock no longer remembers...
