[ale] How old is this list?

[Raylynn Knight]

I volunteered at the 1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase, and met one of the early kernel developers (can’t recall his name now) that helped me get Linux up on a Macintosh.  After that I started working on improving the drivers for the various NuBus Ethernet adapters.  I also volunteered in 1999 and 2000 and joined as an organizer for the ill-fated 2001 Annual Linux Showcase.  Haven’t done any Linux contributions since 2003/2004 time period as family obligations and paying job didn’t leave enough time.  I’ve long been a user of OpenWrt and have recently started to contribute code to that effort.

Ray

 

> On Feb 2, 2021, at 12:48 PM, Jon maddog Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> The Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts were a group of mostly university students who loved (GNU).  There are still web pages existent at ale.org that tell much of the history.
> 
> The group founded in December of 1994, and in those days the first thing you did was form a mailing list, so I would assume that this list or something deeply connected to it started at that time. 
> 
> The Atlanta Linux Showcase started in 1996.  If I remember correctly it was held on the Georgia Tech Campus the first year, at the Apparel Mart downtown in 1998, The Cobb Galleria in 1999 and 2000. 
> 
> In 2001 the original organizers had all graduated and were busy with jobs, buying houses, etc. and the USENIX organization took it over. 
> 
> USENIX made four gigantic mistakes: 
> 
> o they renamed it to the Annual Linux Showcase 
> o they moved it to Oakland, California in November, 2001 
> o they tried to take a free (as in beer) event and charge 350 dollars for it 
> o they allowed Osama Bin-Laden to crash airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 
> 
> When USENIX had not sold a single reservation within three weeks of the event, I convinced them to make it free and about 300-400 people showed up, but USENIX never produced another Linux only show. 
> 
> The ale.org web site is still there, with just a few 404s.   If you want to see what the original events were like there are even some pictures. 
> 
> It is nice that the mailing list is still active.   The Linux group that I started in 1994 and ran for ten years also has a mailing list, but it is much less active than yours. 
> 
> Congratulations to Tod for thinking about retiring....I still have too much fun and I will retire with my mouse still clutched in my cold, dead hands. 
> 
> Peace and love, 
> 
> maddog 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 02/02/2021 10:50 AM Paul Manno via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>  
>>  
>> There are probably still some of us lurking here who were around when the list was first
>> created and who helped create those Atlanta Linux Showcase shows. In either case, I am 
>> not going to even try to think about when I started using either Linux or UNIX...  LoL
>>  
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 9:59 AM Larry Johnson via Ale < ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> My memory isn't great as I'm about to turn 70, but I first installed 
>> Linux in early 1995, and seem to remember signing up for the list not 
>> long thereafter. 
>> 
>> Which means I might have been a lurker for around 25 years. 
>> 
>> On 2/2/21 8:47 AM, Robert Reese via Ale wrote: 
>> > Hi Tod, 
>> > 
>> > Monday, February 1, 2021, 12:19:30 PM, you wrote: 
>> > 
>> >> Am I misremembering? Because I think I got on this list when I was in grad school which would have been in the mid-late 90s. The reason I'm asking is that I am thinking of retiring. I was a really old grad student and now I'm retiring early. Even so. Is it possible I've been on this list my entire professional career? 
>> > I'd say it's entirely possible. I joined in the late 90's also. 
>> > 
>> > Cheers, 
>> > Robert Reese~ 
>> > 
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