me here but I first installed Linux on an Olivetti 386 at HUJI CS in
1992, it was a 0.99p9-something, I think it was SLS
(predecessor for Slack), or maybe the relativelly unknown distro from
a university in the UK (which I think is still in use today) we compiled
and used NIS still called YP), NFS and AMD (the automounter) to make it
share the user database and home directories with the CS
network.
No X11 server but I think we got around to install X clients on it so
we could connect to it through our X terminals and other servers
on the net with relative convenience.
I think on that year we also organized what was later described
the first meeting of Linux users group in Israel. I was the chair
and we didn't know what to talk about very much (I think it
was about spreading the word and what people would like to
have).
I only remember that the founders of Xpert (one of whom introduced
me to Unix 6 years earlier) were in the meeting too.
Ah - Lior - maybe you can ask Izar Tarandash(sp?) to try to shake his
memory - he's the one who told me about Linux when I returned from
my post-army trip abroad.
--Amos
On 4/25/05, Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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