Informatica The Influence of Debian in Linux Open Source Community 11 Febbraio 2016 admin In mid-1993 Ian Murdock announced the creation of Debian. In March 1995 Debian 0.93R5 was released and each programmer started maintaining their own packages. At the time of this writing (mid February, 2016), Distrowatch reports 349 distributions have been created based on Debian with 127 of them still active.