B(I)LUG: A 25-year Retrospective
summary
Timeline of practical milestones: India’s research network runs on 64 kbps links and 128 kbps VSAT in the 1990s, VSNL opens public internet on 15 Aug 1995, kernel grows from ~0.5M to ~18.5M lines, and a 486DX with 4 MB leads to early adoption. Community built out of hands‑on installs — first DNS/FTP/web servers on a Pentium + Slackware, volunteer events draw 107 attendees (June 2000) — and critical failures include lost Yahoo mailing‑list archives that break institutional memory.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Personal open source journey
- 3:19Early internet and Linux
- 7:58First Linux encounters
- 11:35India’s first Linux servers
- 13:20Linux India mailing lists
- 16:11Bangalore Linux events
- 17:57For.IN event
- 19:22Sustainable open source lessons
- 20:45Preserving community history
- 22:11Documenting India’s open source past
- 23:16Q&A
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