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.