Re: [LI] Re: [ilug-blr] Re: Times of India articles

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Atul Chitnis forced the electrons to say:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Uday Kumar wrote:
> 
> > I need to know who Introduced Linux in India so I can Interview him
> > for my site and have a feature. Please let me know
> 
> The earliest reference to Linux in India I have is February 1992, when a
> chappie named Rajendra Kulkarni at NCST Bombay, along with a few friends,
> downloaded a *very* early version of Linux to try out. I saw it, and it
> wasn't pretty. They put it on a tape for later reference. I have that
> tape.

The IITB Aero. Engg. Department had started running their email server
on Linux (Slackware 1.0) almost at the same time. The people involved
were one Amitaya Isaacs who was then an undergraduate student, and
Prof. G. R. Shevare of the department. Mr. Isaacs has long left the
department, but you can get in touch with Prof. Shevare. I believe
this was in early 1992. Prof. Shevare then went on to develop XZeus,
an X/Motif based grid generation software (the bread and butter of
many Aero Engineers) on Linux. This, maybe, is the first major project
undertaken on Linux in India.

Binand

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