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What was your first linux distro?
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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:26 am   Post subject: What was your first linux distro? Reply with quote Back to top  
Just curious, mine was Redhat 5.3

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:37 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
RedHat (6, I think) was the first one I tried too, probably because it was the most famous at the time, however I didn't start using Linux with any kind of seriousness (i.e. as my main OS) until around 2005.

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:45 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
The first one I ever tried was Suse, can't remember which one tho. I think it was like 6 years ago when I was in year 9 if that helps. I've tried a few over the years though but I never really got into it enough to make me want to use it as my main OS, however I have been considering it more and more recently as my uses for my computer have changed i.e. I actually use it for work now instead of gaming.
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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:02 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Mine was Red Hat 3.something I think.... Going back almost 10 years now... Didn't go too well, was trying lotsa OSes (was playing with Win95, OS/2 and WinNT 4 around the same time).

Then gave it away for a while, and became interested again and tried Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE about 4 or 5 years ago. Liked SuSE the best, and still use it. I am thinking of trying another one soon. Need to build a Myth/MAME box...

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:09 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
First I ever tried was Slackware 9. I attempted very briefly to use it as my main OS, and gave up after a few days. Messed around a bit with a few others since then, but nothing stuck till Jay convinced me to use Ubuntu. Been using it exclusively since July last year.

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:17 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
something that my brother pulled out of the back of a magazine... Think it might have been mandrake...

it was bad at the time (I was running it on a 133Mhz laptop...)

Tried a lot of distro's in college, but none of them stuck (mostly because of windows only software I was running at the time..

I started using Debian just after college, for my myth box originally, again after trying out a few, and have been using it ever since

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:24 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
RedHat 6 here also.
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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:25 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I tried and early version of Red Hat back in the late 90s with the full intention of learning it. It pretty much sat on an old PC. It wasn't until I forced myself to setup a practical file server last year that I finally started to really get into it. I'm running Fedora Core on it. I also have a full blown web server collocated in Dallas running CentOS

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:35 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
redhat ... but jumped quickly to mandrake when it came out. Been with Mandrake / Mandriva ever since.

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:13 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:26 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Started with redhat back in the early 90s then moved to slackware and then to gentoo for quite some time now on ubuntu until I get bored and wipe my system again.
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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:40 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Either Red Hat or Mandrake; they were both used early on.

When I ran linux at home regularly, I used gentoo.

At work, we have a FreeBSD server. That's the only one I play with these days.

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:50 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Let's see....

Did Redhat 5ish with a training course that my work offered. Why they did I ahve no idea, we never supported Linux.

then Mandrake 8 until their memory leak issue that I had drove me batty.

then Suse 9 at an empoyer that I worked for. Only good thing about them really.

and now for the last few years BSD, which I guess really isn't Linux so I'm a "failed convert"

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:41 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Started on RedHat 6 dual booted on the first PC that I ever built, right after coming to college. Currently my system is dual-booted with Mandrake 10 because I don't want to go through all the work of reloading drivers and software. The box runs perfectly as-is and I don't feel a strong compulsion to upgrade just yet. Of course, at work it RHEL 5 now.

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Post Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:22 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I Think it was Redmond Linux. Which later became Lindows, then Linspire. I only used the Redmond flavor though. It had solitaire built into the installer.
Then I ran Redhat for a while.
Then I ran Mandrake for a while.
I'm using Suse now. I'm on 10.2 now. I've been using it since 9.0.

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