Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-26 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:19:23 +0300, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote a document entitled "A Brief History of Linux in Isreal" over at the > Hackers-IL wiki: > > http://www.hackers.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Linux_in_Israel > > I did the best to get the facts rig

RE: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-24 Thread Jobs - MainStream
I remember when Mark Gazit (who eventually became a VP at Netvision and later on Delta-3) installed Linux onto the computers we were working on back in 1993/4. I forget which distro he used, but I still have my "Yggdrasil" Linux floppy and manual from 1994 (1.1 kernel) sitting in my drawer.

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-24 Thread Amos Shapira
I'll probably need Marc's (and maybe Ira's?) memory to help 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 i

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-24 Thread Lior Kesos
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

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-24 Thread Omer Zak
> 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 an

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-24 Thread Arik Baratz
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 j

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-23 Thread Amos Shapira
If anyone - Stallman should be Moses. IMHO.On 4/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Happy Pesach to all,For our seder tonight (I'm in CA right now) we're each supposed to bring something remotely connected with Pesach. Can any of you think of aconnection between Pesach and Linux ?Pe

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-23 Thread michael
Happy Pesach to all, For our seder tonight (I'm in CA right now) we're each supposed to bring something remotely connected with Pesach. Can any of you think of a connection between Pesach and Linux ? Perhaps I can write a parody of the exodus with Bill Gates as Pharoh and Linus (or Eric?) as Moses

A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi good people! (and Happy Passover) I wrote a document entitled "A Brief History of Linux in Isreal" over at the Hackers-IL wiki: http://www.hackers.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Linux_in_Israel I did the best to get the facts right, and do justice to the history. I'm not awar