discuss: Re: LDP Anniversary]
Subject:
Re: moRe: [Fwd: LDP Anniversary]
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
3 May 2002 08:50:37 -0000
Message-Id: <20020503085010.ONAF9799.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@there>
Here's some things I was able to find (word wrap isn't working well so I
apologize in advance if this message comes out bad!):
1. Article posted to comp.os.linux.announce on Feb 24, 1997 by Lars Wizernius
- announces newsgroup is five years old and talks about founding of it, as
well as his start with Matt Welsh, and work on his first LDP document:
http://sorry.vse.cz/~tom/Linux-Announce/141.html
2. LDP Manifesto, Last Revision 21 December 1993 -- Matt Welsh (email
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http://web1.archive.org/web/19990210115002/metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/LDP-Manifesto
3. Announcement of Linux System Administrator guide v0.3 by Lars Wirzenius,
and mentions at the top that it will soon be in a new LDP subdirectory on
sunsite.unc.edu's shortly, written Aug 6, 1995:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=wirzenius+welsh+ldp+sunsite&hl=en&safe=off&selm=cola-liw-807729284-9656-1%40oravannahka.helsinki.fi&rnum=1
4. Matt Welsh posts to comp.os.linux on Dec 21, 1993 with LDP Status Update.
Docs are available at sunsite in directories, and this is the Manifesto.
Maybe it was between Dec 21, 1993 and Aug 6, 1995 (or soon thereafter as
indicated by Lars in the previous link) that the site went up:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=wirzenius+welsh+ldp+sunsite&start=10&hl=en&safe=off&selm=1993Dec21.230412.17238%40cs.cornell.edu&rnum=14
You might find it interesting to visit http://www.archive.org. This site has
archives of old WWW sites, but you don't often find much prior to 1996. When
I searched sunsite.unc.edu it would translate it to metalab.unc.edu even from
this search, but there is still access to the original file directories from
there!
Tabatha
On Thursday 02 May 2002 13:19, David Merrill wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:20:42AM -0400, Paul Jones wrote:
> > Serena writes:
> >
> > There is also this interview with MAtt Welsh at O'Reilly about the early
> > days at LDP:
> > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/02/25/interview/welshtranscr
> >ipt.html
> >
> > A Feb 15, 1993 letter from Matt Welsh taking over the project from Lars:
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/fents/ldp/930224.18.txt
> >
> > A December 21, 1993 letter from MAtt - he has a sunsite email address
> > and the url for the documentation that he discusses is at sunsite. So
> > things arrived before then:
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/fents/ldp/931222.14.txt
>
> Some Googling found the following very interesting posts.
>
>
> The first posting with "Linux Documentation Project" on USENET is from
> Matt Welsh, announcing the project. It seems it was first proposed by
> Lars on the linux-activists mailing list.
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22linux+documentation+project%22&hl=en&
>lr=lang_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1992&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12
>&as_maxy=1992&selm=1992Nov13.030905.3415%40tc.cornell.edu&rnum=1
>
> A post from Michael K. Johnson about the project in March, 1992. This
> posting indicates the project had already been underway since even
> earlier:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Linux+Documentation+Project&hl=en&lr=lang
>_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1987&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_max
>y=1992&selm=1992Mar31.015341.26436%40athena.mit.edu&rnum=2
>
> A RFQ for documentation in July, 1992. Apparently, the volume was
> getting out of hand. Hehe. Look at us *now*:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Linux+Documentation+Project&hl=en&lr=lang
>_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1987&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_max
>y=1992&selm=1992Jul6.173131.6234%40news.nd.edu&rnum=3
>
> There are of course hundreds of similar messages back and forth. I
> haven't tracked down an actual announcement of the site launch yet,
> though that would be the real gold. Surely it must be there somewhere.
--
Tabatha Persad
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