Debian [SEP] named after
Debian was first announced on August 16, 1993, by Ian Murdock, who initially called the system "the Debian Linux Release". The word "Debian" was formed as a portmanteau of the first name of his then-girlfriend (later ex-wife) Debra Lynn and his own first name. Before Debian's release, the Softlanding Linux System (SLS) had been a popular Linux distribution and the basis for Slackware. The perceived poor maintenance and prevalence of bugs in SLS motivated Murdock to launch a new
information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources. vnStat had a Initial public release in 23-Sep-2002 (version 1.0) by Teemu Toivola.
On 8 March 2004 its webpage moved to https://humdi.net/vnstat/ and a man page was included.
On 4 November 2006 was included in Debian for Testing Watch and on 17 November 2006 was removed and next day was accepted 1.4-4 version. On 20 February 2010 was accepted 1.10-0.1 version in Debian. Nowadays Debian