Subject for August

[Ben Francis]

We had a speaker for August, but he deferred until September. Does anyone want to present something next Tuesday, August 9 at 6:30pm?

Ben 

[Steven Nance]

As a side note. I'm a day or two late but Happy 25th anniversary ColaLUG.

[Steven Nance]

Looked it up again.  Aug. 5th, 1997

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[Ben Francis]

Thank you, Steven!

For those who don't know, Steven was one of the original members of the ColaLUG way back 25 years ago, when Linux was a 5 year old baby, and Windows 95 was 2 years old (and you could login with a blank password).

I hadn't heard of the group until 2007, when I started to get real serious about learning Linux well. We met in the faculty lounge of the Engineering building of the USC campus. Shay Walters was the President.

Back then this group was the only local way to meet other like-minded souls willing to burn hours and hours learning how to get audio working or to burn a CD. 

Now everyone is walking around with Linux in their pocket, and not knowing that fact, because Linux just does its job and gets out of your way.

You could argue that this group is not needed anymore due to the meteoric success of Linux and because there are so many ways to solve your Linux problems on the Web,  but I still like gathering together once a month to tell Linux war stories and hear how people in this community are using open source software to better their lives, improve their privacy, or scratch a technical itch.

Will there be another 25 years? Almost certainly. I got called about a COBOL job last week. That technology  came out in 1960. Computer code dies hard.

Runtime Verification was just added to the Linux kernel last week, enabling safety-critical technology, so innovation is still happening at incredible speed. 

So yeah, we're good for a LONG WHILE. Here's to another 25!

Ben

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[shay walters]

Also from me, thanks for the note, Steven. It never would have
occurred to me to try to look that up. From looking back, I see that
we had a 20th anniversary get-together at a local brewpub.

I had not been President very long when Ben started coming to the
meetings. I was a bit of a neophyte at the time, myself. Tom
Sightler had been leading the meetings, but a guy named Victor Gascon
was officially the president. We had a sympathetic USC faculty member
who would get the faculty lounge open for us, and he eventually
managed to get a key signed out to me so we could get it open on those
days when he wasn't able to. I'm sorry, but I can't remember his name
- or maybe it was Victor. Steven Nance has been our Invisible
Benefactor who has maintained the hardware for the ColaLUG website
when we were doing that, and he has maintained the domain registration
of "colalug.org" for all these years. (Thanks again, Steven!)

Being a rebel, I went for Linux rather than Windows, and being a
rebel, I went for Ubuntu rather than Red hat (Fedora), which most
Linux people I knew at the time were using. If I recall, I first
started out with Ubuntu 5.04. My cousin Phil often came to the
meetings; he had been working with Linux since the days before there
were any distros, and you had to compile everything yourself.

Well, That's all that comes to mind right off... I'll probably
remember something else significant at 3:00 a.m.. :-)

-Shay

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[Steven Nance]

Here's a sample of the site after I started tinkering more with HTML.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990429065746/http://www.colalug.org/

I think James McDuffie did the first site and I started the group.  James went off to college and there were many meetings where it was just Chris Powell and myself.  Things took off late '98 and early '99.  Chris took over for a short period after I left for Atlanta in July '99.  It's impressive to see it still active.  Maybe I can come for the 30th anniversary.

Keep it up Linux geeks :)

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[shay walters]

Wow! That archive.org snapshot is neat. I hadn't seen that before.
In looking at that, I see a few references to rune.org, which I
suppose y'all were using for the group's email and at one time the
website. That site (www.rune.org) has apparently sat in suspended
animation for all these years (If you try to bring up the site today,
it gets a certificate error because the certificate is self-signed,
and you have to bypass a security check to see it.) It also links to
an even older Colalug site (http://www.rune.org/colalug/) with an
ancient ColaLUG logo that I have seen only once or twice.

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[Ben Francis]

Archive.org has incredible storage space. Ten years ago, a journalist admitted that his  magazine was storing all their Linux distributions on there, and the Archive dude said, "Yeah? Fine. That's a perfect use case for it."

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[Ben Francis]

We're meeting in 15 minutes.

[Michael R Jordan]

I remember that web page! Also, sort of, remember the Majordomo presentation. Because a while after that, I had a couple of listservs running on an old 486 machine with one of those pentium upgrade processors and a ridiculously low amount of memory (nowadays) at my house. Think I was running Red Hat on it. Those were cool times.
The first meeting at B&N, as I recall, we just bs'ed and decided to meet again. It went from there.

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[Ben Francis]

> we just bs'ed and decided to meet again

A lot like tonight! :D

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[Ben Francis]

Here's the video: https://youtu.be/ApiNNhgeLz8

[Ben Francis]

And here's some links we talked about:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990429065746/http://www.colalug.org/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.0-Runtime-Verification https://bristot.me/files/presentations/RTLA_ELC_2022.pdf https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git/tree/Documentation/trace/rv/runtime-verification.rst?h=for-next&id=ff0aaf671230d409a68fd7400f41e9eb3ac61dd8

[Steven Nance]

That's my recollection as well.   We had to find a play to hang out.

[Steven Nance]

rune.org was Sarwers server and domain.  We used that for a while before creating colalug.org.  We figured if we were a real group, we should have our own domain name.  That was back when domains where $50-70 per year if I recall correctly.  Sarwer probably still has rune.org doing something just not much for web services any longer.  www.rune.org/colalug was what James McDuffie setup.  I also recall him having a very technically detailed article on connecting a Palm Pilot to Linux.  All while he was in high school.