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Sender:	Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:47:50 -0500
Reply-To:	Brett Viren <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:	Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?
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In-Reply-To:	<[log in to unmask]> (Konstantin Olchanski's message of "Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:24:17 -0800")
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Hi Konstantin,

Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> This happened right after the first quad-PentiumPro machines became
> available, with Dell dual-PentiumII/III to follow soon after.

Yes and it's why www.phy.bnl.gov is running on a system that still
caries the (internal) hostname "phyppro1"!

> I am not sure what happened with Debian at that point. We certainly knew
> about it, one of Debian founders worked with us. We also knew about Slackware.

I guess this was maybe Perens?  He came to the "Open Source / Open
Science" workshop held at BNL in 1999.

  https://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/1999/bnlpr090899.html

I attended that as a grad student and joined the lab shortly after.

Cheers,
-Brett.

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