[LIG] History

[ Attending foss.in 2006 this week ]

Meeting some of the early people who used to hang out on the list and 
reading through the wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_India)
it sounds like there is some uncertainity about the precise dates and
the events that lead to the creating of this list.

I spent a few minutes sifting through the web to come up with more precise
data and here's what I found:

a) The list started in late 1997

IIRC, KD and I hooked up via:

GLUE: Groups of Linux users everywhere
http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue [ URL no longer accessible ]

We had 10 subscribers in March 1998.
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/woven/lugww/IN.html

We announced it on comp.os.linux.announce in July 1998.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/archives/comp.os.linux.announce/volume98/Jul/980715.02.gz

b) Places where the list was hosted and administered:

1997-Nov 1999: majordomo-JWu/g2lOtLBch8oin/[email protected] - Arun Sharma <[email protected]>
Nov 1999 - Apr 2001: aunet.org, linux-india.org (first majordomo, then mailman) - Thaths ([email protected])
Apr 2001 - now: sourceforge.net (thaths, raju, devdas bhagat and anyone else I may have missed - please correct me)

grandteton.cs.uiuc.edu: My desktop machine in the university (A 200 MHz PPro). Once I graduated from school and moved out, it was given to other students, but they continued to let me have access so I could administer the lists.

It was hosted in thath's bedroom for the next two years before moving to SF.

	-Arun

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