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+# countdown file.
+20001225 christmas Christmas
+20000914 olympics Opening ceremony of Olympics in Sydney, Australia
+20000704 america Independence Day
+20000501 potato Proposed release of Debian GNU/Linux Potato 2.2
+20000420 2.4 Hopeful debut of 2.4.0 kernel
+20000315 xfree4.0 XFree86 4.0 core release
+20000217 win2k Evil Empire's Release of deadly OS
+20000126 australia Australia Day
+20000119 crusoe Transmeta comes out of hiding
+20000115 freeze Debian (GNU/Linux) Potato version 2.2 stabilization begins
+20000101 y2k Year 2000