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title: About
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inMenu: true
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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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Notebooks), by five of us. The main motivation was that the TU/e provided
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notebooks to their first year students, and we wanted to assist students
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who were interested to run Linux on it instead of/next to Windows.
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One of the goals was gain as much knowledge about the workings of the
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operating 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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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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example 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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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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the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Because it was also uncommon to
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have a server at home, shell accounts were provided to the users to learn
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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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bigger one, which is the one this web site still runs on, and we switched
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from "Slackware":http://slackware.com/ to "Debian":http://debian.org/. The
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network gained about 30 users, some websites and projects found their home
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on the server and we obtained an extra server for the core services. By
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then the domain @luon.net@ was registered and the Luon Network was born.
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Due to issues with the place our servers were located, everything had to be
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temporarily moved to the student society "Odin":http://odin.tte.ele.tue.nl/
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until we found a better place. When in August 2000
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"Spacelabs":http://spacelabs.nl/ was founded, the Luon Network found its
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current home and was able to spread it's wings. We gained and lost dozens
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of users and also servers who were privately managed by users on which they
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learnt the ropes of managing a server. Besides that, lots of projects
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were started and, although not all were finished, are still running on one
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of our servers.
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While the need for the LoTN project has been completely removed by the
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growing up of GNU/Linux and its distributions, Luon still continues to
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provide lots of "services":services.html to their users.
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