[ale] How old is this list?

Wed Feb 3 09:22:10 EST 2021

Yeah... Through my time spent with ALE, I'd acquired DEC Alpha, HP PA-RISC,
Motorola RISC PC, SGI O2, and Sun Sparc hardware all to run Linux on and
work on adding support or verifying functionality. A lot of my work in the
early 2000s while in California I was working with the NAGIOS framework
plugins to get them dual-stack capable so I was testing code on multiple
architectures both IPv4 only and IPv4/IPv6 capable to ensure functionality.
I was in the San Francisco Bay Area in '01 when USENIX tried to move to the
ALS there and remember how it went well. In the past 6-7 years, I've
submitted patches to both PuppetLabs and SaltStack projects to fix various
issues. For the last 12-13 years, much of my work has revolved around cloud
computing.

As was said earlier and I thought about it, I've been on the ALE list for
most of my career as well. Even when I moved to California and now after
moving down to Florida. ALE would be where I turned to look for my peers
first. Speaking of which, I will be back in Atlanta from Feb 26-28. Have
some business to take care of on the 27th but if there were interest and
could determine a suitable location could get together for a small
gathering and perhaps keysigning info exchange. Wife and I will be flying
in late on the 26th and back out early morning of the 28th so would have to
be the evening of the 27th. Just putting it out there to see if any
interest.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:39 AM Raylynn Knight via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Robert~
> >> >
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