I'm not sure of the order but maybe the MPLUG and the LUAU mailing list were at the same time.
I joined the LUAU mailing list some time in 1996 or 1997. After quite a few moves of ownership, I am here now. As I remember that time frame... I was active in the list but the only meeting I attended with the group was a "field trip" to visit the Roadrunner broadband facility and operation in Mililani (or was it Oceanic at the time). I believe that was 1996/97 as well. The LUAU dude (Ed Orcutt I believe) running the show was giving out Caldera cds. The person at Oceanic and/or Roadrunner (Doug Stanfield?) and a few LUAU members worked together to make a Linux client for authentication to the CM system so you could connect without Windows about that timeframe as well. I have some saved sent mail from 1997 and the LUAU mailing address then was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here was the signature: --- > __ __ __________ __ > / / / / / / __ / / / / Home Page: http://www.eosys.com/luau > / /__/ /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / > /____/\____/_/ /_/\____/ LUAU - Linux Users Anonymous - Hawaii > > To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] My old mail is not to organized but I remeber the mailing list moved to hi.net for a few years, then to UH, and now hosef? I left the islands in 1998 There was always bickering but good knowledge was always passed around as well. Matt Darnell wrote: > On 2/26/06, Julian Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 00:24 -1000, Matt Darnell wrote: >> >>>I thought interesting that no one knows why LUAU got rolled into HOSEF. >>>Their goals are so different. >> >>Matt, >>I'm relatively new around here so I'm wondering what you mean by this? >> >>- Julian >> > > > Julian, > > Here is a summary of what people were talking about. > > Before HOSEF was created, before Luau, there was MPLUG. Mid-Pacific Linux > Users Group. MPLUG was started by Warren Togumi before he went on to bigger > and better things. It was a bunch of Linux enthusiasts that would get > together once a month can talk shop, learn from each other, and build cool > stuff. > > It seems like everything the Linux community does is run by HOSEF. People > want to have an autonomous LUAU back. HOSEF is geared toward bringing Linux > to the OSS neophytes, LUAU is for newbies-gurus & everywhere in between, > business owners, solution providers etc. Of course there is some cross > over. > > There was also talk of having a annual conference as a fundraser to > highlight OSS in the community - j/k > > You should come next build, you can ask the 'old-timers' - people over 30 > about the good old days. > > -Matt > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
