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h2. About the Luon Network;
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h2. About the Luon Network;
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In 1998 the Luon Network was started with the LoTN project (Linux on TU/e
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In 1998 the Luon Network was started with the LoTN project (Linux on TU/e
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Notebooks), by five of us. The main motivation was that the TU/e provided
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Notebooks), by five of us. The main motivation was that the "Eindhoven
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notebooks to their first year students, and we wanted to assist students
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University of Technology":http://www.tue.nl/ provided notebooks to their
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who were interested to run Linux on it instead of/next to Windows.
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first year students, and we wanted to assist students who were interested
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One of the goals was gain as much knowledge about the workings of the
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to run "Linux":http://linux.org/ on it instead of/next to Windows. One of
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operating system and make it available to whomever wanted to join us.
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the goals was gain as much knowledge about the workings of the operating
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system and make it available to whomever wanted to join us.
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Back in those days, it was quite hard to get Linux fully up and running,
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Back in those days, it was quite hard to get Linux fully up and running,
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especially the graphical environment. So, the project started with a bunch
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especially the graphical environment. So, the project started with a bunch
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of web pages explaining how to get things working with accompanying
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of web pages explaining how to get things working with accompanying example
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example configuration files. Because the Internet was not as widely
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configuration files. Because the Internet was not as widely
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available--dial-in was still the main method to get on-line--it was
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available--dial-in was still the main method to get on-line--it was
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convenient to have an server that was always available at the university.
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convenient to have an server that was always available at the university.
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A server was arranged and put in the archive room of the "studentenburo" of
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A server was arranged and put in the archive room of the "studentenburo" of
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the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Because it was also uncommon to
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the "Faculty of Electrical Engineering":http://www.ele.tue.nl/. Because it
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have a server at home, shell accounts were provided to the users to learn
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was also uncommon to have a server at home, shell accounts were provided to
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their way around the system.
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the users to learn their way around the system.
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In the beginning of 1999, the server we started with was replaced by a
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In the beginning of 1999, the server we started with was replaced by a
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bigger one, which is the one this web site still runs on, and we switched
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bigger one, which is the one this web site still runs on, and we switched
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* StatusNet account
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* StatusNet account
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* Web space
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* Web space
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See the "Links":links.html page for links to the website of some of these
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services or the "Contact":contact.html page if you want to get it touch
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about these services.
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We also do:
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We also do:
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* Audio/video streaming
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* DNS/domain hosting
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* DNS/domain hosting
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* E-mail hosting
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* E-mail hosting
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* Hosting of Git/Subversion repositories
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* Hosting of Git/Subversion repositories
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* Web hosting
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* Web hosting
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* Website visit statistics
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* Website visit statistics
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* Yubnub;
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* Yubnub;
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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.
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* "Planet":http://planet.luon.net/, feed aggregator of our blogs, etc.
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* "Radio":http://radio.luon.net/, web interface of our radio station
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* "Radio":http://radio.luon.net/, web interface of our radio station
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* "Subversion":http://svn.luon.net, web access to the Subversion repositories
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* "Subversion":http://svn.luon.net, web access to the Subversion repositories
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* "Stream":http://stream.luon.net/, audio/video streaming service
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* "Trac":http://trac.luon.net, wiki/bug tracker/source view for Subversion repositories
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* "Trac":http://trac.luon.net, wiki/bug tracker/source view for Subversion repositories
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* "Webalizer":http://webalizer.luon.net/, web usage statistics
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* "Webalizer":http://webalizer.luon.net/, web usage statistics
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* "Yubnub":http://yubnub.luon.net, our own (social) command line for the web
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* "Yubnub":http://yubnub.luon.net, our own (social) command line for the web
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