Debian 1.0 was never released. InfoMagic, a CD vendor, accidentally shipped a development release of Debian and entitled it 1.0. On December 11th 1995, Debian and InfoMagic jointly announced that the release was screwed. Bruce Perens explains that the data placed on the “InfoMagic Linux Developer’s Resource 5-CD Set November 1995” as “Debian 1.0” is not the Debian 1.0 release, but an early development version which is only partially in the ELF format, will probably not boot or run correctly, and does not represent the quality of a released Debian system. To prevent confusion between the premature CD version and the actual Debian release, the Debian Project has renamed its next release to “Debian 1.1”.