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h2. About the Luon Network;
In 1998 the Luon Network was started with the LoTN project (Linux on TU/e
Notebooks), by five of us. The main motivation was that the TU/e provided
notebooks to their first year students, and we wanted to assist students
who were interested to run Linux on it instead of/next to Windows.
One of the goals was gain as much knowledge about the workings of the
operating system and make it available to whomever wanted to join us.
Notebooks), by five of us. The main motivation was that the "Eindhoven
University of Technology":http://www.tue.nl/ provided notebooks to their
first year students, and we wanted to assist students who were interested
to run "Linux":http://linux.org/ on it instead of/next to Windows. One of
the goals was gain as much knowledge about the workings of the operating
system and make it available to whomever wanted to join us.
Back in those days, it was quite hard to get Linux fully up and running,
especially the graphical environment. So, the project started with a bunch
of web pages explaining how to get things working with accompanying
example configuration files. Because the Internet was not as widely
of web pages explaining how to get things working with accompanying example
configuration files. Because the Internet was not as widely
available--dial-in was still the main method to get on-line--it was
convenient to have an server that was always available at the university.
A server was arranged and put in the archive room of the "studentenburo" of
the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Because it was also uncommon to
have a server at home, shell accounts were provided to the users to learn
their way around the system.
the "Faculty of Electrical Engineering":http://www.ele.tue.nl/. Because it
was also uncommon to have a server at home, shell accounts were provided to
the users to learn their way around the system.
In the beginning of 1999, the server we started with was replaced by a
bigger one, which is the one this web site still runs on, and we switched

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* StatusNet account
* Web space
See the "Links":links.html page for links to the website of some of these
services or the "Contact":contact.html page if you want to get it touch
about these services.
We also do:
* Audio/video streaming
* DNS/domain hosting
* E-mail hosting
* Hosting of Git/Subversion repositories
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* Web hosting
* Website visit statistics
* Yubnub;
and have our own "radio station":http://radio.luon.net/!

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* "Planet":http://planet.luon.net/, feed aggregator of our blogs, etc.
* "Radio":http://radio.luon.net/, web interface of our radio station
* "Subversion":http://svn.luon.net, web access to the Subversion repositories
* "Stream":http://stream.luon.net/, audio/video streaming service
* "Trac":http://trac.luon.net, wiki/bug tracker/source view for Subversion repositories
* "Webalizer":http://webalizer.luon.net/, web usage statistics
* "Yubnub":http://yubnub.luon.net, our own (social) command line for the web