[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[John Dallman]

In article <unf485$174pb$5 at dont-email.me>, ldo at nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

> So a couple of guys set themselves the job of recompiling the whole 
> of Debian from source, optimized for the Raspberry Pi. As I recall, 
> the bulk of the job took them 6 weeks. In their own spare time.
> 
> They called the result _Raspbian_. You may have heard of it. Though 
> I think the Foundation has now taken it over and called it 
> _Raspberry Pi OS_.

The two original guys release their first version in July 2012. The
Foundation released their version in September 2013, 14 months later. The
Foundation isn't a large and rich company, but it is more than a
shoestring operation. 

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS#History>

John