I love this archiologic/anthropologic quest for the origins of linux in Israel.. So I'll contribute my 2 cents ... Although I was a late comer (kernel 2.0) to the linux world I've been working for the past 5 year in aduva that hosted some/parts of the linux community and thus alot of stories where told around the coffee machine... Searching the archives I found the 94-to96 tgz with the first messeg by Harvey Stein. Dovie Adler is the person that set up the mailing list. It's really amusing reading the messages of the pre history of linux-il and amusingly many of the participants are still active members of the list (Omer, Guy, Didi, Choo, Marc etc..) The amusing part is how many mails it took to organizae the first meeting and the amount of chatter it took I guess nothing realy changes ... :)
Yet Another LinuxIL Archeologist Lior. On 4/24/05, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 23/04/05, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I did the best to get the facts right, and do justice to the history. I'm > > > not > > > aware of any other one who documented the Israeli open-source history this > > > way. Note that the page is world-editable so feel free to correct typos > > > and > > > stuff. I just ask that if you have more substantial modifications you'd > > > like > > > to incorporate there, that you'll raise them here before actually editing > > > the > > > page. > > My own recollections of the beginnings of Linux-IL are: > One day someone posted on one of the Usenet Israeli newsgroups a query > to find Israeli Linux users. I think it was sometime in 1993. And I > think that the guy was looking for a copy of Linux installation > diskettes to install Linux on his own PC. > > Several people replied that they use Linux, including Harvey J. Stein. > It appeared that Linux has made inroads into Israel, but its users were > isolated and were not aware of each other. > > Then, Harvey J. Stein posted that a mailing list for Israeli Linux users > should be set up. > > While Stein was studying how to set up a mailing list, someone (whose > name escaped me) from Hebrew U. CS department beat him to the punch and > set up the Linux-IL mailing list. > --- Omer > -- > MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC world. > My own blog is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
