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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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    • ObsolesceO
      Obsolesce
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      In the late 90's, I touched Linux a little here and there to test it out, but I honestly can't remember what distro it was... it may have even been FreeBSD. For some reason, Debian comes to mind, but I don't know for sure.

      I didn't like it, perhaps because I was too young, didn't fully understand what I was doing, and/or it just feel too clunky/buggy. Because of that, I stuck with Win95/Win98.

      It wasn't until the early 2000's, like 2005ish, maybe earlier, that I stuck it on something again, to give it a real go, and that was Ubuntu 4 or 5.something. Back then I was deep into 2003/WindowsXP, so I compared it to that. And again, it didn't compare. But it was a so much better experience than before. That's when I realized it was actually something worth using.

      It wasn't until I started using it as servers a few years later that I actually preferred it for some tasks over Windows.

      Today, I prefer Fedora for home/business use, where I can get away with it if it makes sense where appropriate.

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      • stacksofplatesS
        stacksofplates
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        First attempt was Sabayon. First time I actually started doing stuff was Ubuntu.

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          bnrstnr
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          Shortly after I graduated HS I acquired a copy of Red Hat 8 (I think, cross referenced wiki article with approx. date), like @Dashrender I didn't give it much of a chance as I was mostly gaming at the time.

          Ubuntu server was the first that I really actually used a lot. No idea what version, but it was in the mid-late 2000s. I was mostly using it for LAMP stack. I know it's bad, but Ubuntu is still my linux of choice for most things as that's what I'm most familiar with.

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          • PenguinWranglerP
            PenguinWrangler
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            Mandrivia

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            • CloudKnightC
              CloudKnight
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              Ubuntu 6.06 was the first main distribution I used, at the time I was running a computer shop and installed it on a few cheap machines we sold that didn't have windows licences, It worked great. I remember I ordered a load of cd's from canonical which had the printed case and cd which I gave away free to customers to try, I did use other linux distro's as well for file and password recovery of windows machines, I couldn't tell you what they were though because I can't remember.

              These days I'm quite a fan of Ubuntu Server Edition and for GUI i'm quite a fan of Deepin.

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              • momurdaM
                momurda
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                SimplyMEPIS

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
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                  RedHat 3 or 4 setup a web server on it from my old man's place.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                    @tim_g said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                    I didn't like it, perhaps because I was too young, didn't fully understand what I was doing, and/or it just feel too clunky/buggy. Because of that, I stuck with Win95/Win98.

                    I was deep into the UNIX world before Windows 3.1 even released!

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                    • triple9T
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                      RedHat Linux 4 Colgate 1996, even had original CD box :). At about same time tried Slackware, but I decided to stay with RH. At that time I volunteered at the university computer center where we had VAX/VMS host and couple of HP-UX workstations. We used RH as PPP server, Web and email server and students used it for shell access. Great days.

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                      • gjacobseG
                        gjacobse
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                        good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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                          @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                          good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                          Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

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                          • gjacobseG
                            gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                            @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                            good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                            Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

                            LMAO - it was where I worked,.. and it was in the very early 1990s.

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                            • stacksofplatesS
                              stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                              @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                              good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                              Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

                              My dad managed one for the paving company he worked for.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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                                @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                                Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

                                LMAO - it was where I worked,.. and it was in the very early 1990s.

                                Still, those were ancient by the 1990s.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                                  @stacksofplates said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                  @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                  good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                                  Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

                                  My dad managed one for the paving company he worked for.

                                  My dad worked on a lot of them too, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
                                    stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                    @stacksofplates said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                    @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                    good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                                    Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

                                    My dad managed one for the paving company he worked for.

                                    My dad worked on a lot of them too, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

                                    Ya this was sometime in the 80s before I was born.

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                                    • gjacobseG
                                      gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                      @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                      @gjacobse said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                      good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

                                      Where the heck did you get a PDP 11? I mean I had one once, but really?

                                      LMAO - it was where I worked,.. and it was in the very early 1990s.

                                      Still, those were ancient by the 1990s.

                                      yup... I remember those old platter drives...

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        For those wondering, this is a DEC PDP11...

                                        0_1508433873687_Pdp-11-40.jpg

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                                        • gjacobseG
                                          gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                          For those wondering, this is a DEC PDP11...

                                          0_1508433873687_Pdp-11-40.jpg

                                          This is more like what we had..

                                          0_1508433986193_ff074f95-5ff0-40e3-b585-ab19081c20a9-image.png

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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                                            @gjacobse all fancy and stuff.

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