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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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      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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                    • gjacobseG
                      gjacobse @gjacobse
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                      @gjacobse

                      The platter drive:

                      http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/IMAGES/pdp11/rl01a.JPG

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                      • gjacobseG
                        gjacobse
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                        What I played Oregon Trail on in the mid 70's

                        http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/IMAGES/pdp11/decwrit.JPG

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @triple9
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                          @triple9 said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                          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.

                          Slackware wow I remember that!

                          First setup was an early RedHat version of some type. Set up a server for some security software but no longer recall what. It was between 1998 and 2000 as I was working for ADT at the time.

                          After that I did not do much until the mid 2000's. Then I was always using CentOS 4/5. I tried a few various versions of Linux based operating systems and absolutely hated Ubuntu.

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                          • dafyreD
                            dafyre
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                            My first one was umm... Debian. I got it on CD from a magazine somewhere.

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                              marcinozga
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                              Corel Linux. Then I think RedHat 3 or 4, and Mandrake, I don't remember the version now.

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                              • brandon220B
                                brandon220
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                                Redhat no gui was my first exposure to linux. Shortly after, Suse.

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                                • jmooreJ
                                  jmoore
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                                  I was about 20 at the time so around 1993-1994 and my first then was whatever red hat version it was up to by then, sorry don't remember more than that. Came in big book with cd i believe. wish i still had that book but ex girlfriend threw it away

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

                                    I was about 20 at the time so around 1993-1994 and my first then was whatever red hat version it was up to by then, sorry don't remember more than that. Came in big book with cd i believe. wish i still had that book but ex girlfriend threw it away

                                    RH wasn't even out then! 🙂 RH 1 was 1995.

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                                      matteo nunziati @Dashrender
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                                      @dashrender slackware linux don't remember the version. First comment was:WTF. Second one was: cool you can recompile the os. Third was: hei I was used to have a modem...

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                                      • jmooreJ
                                        jmoore @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller well guess that was it, hard to rememeber, if it was 1995 then i was 21. I liked it btw

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                                        • jt1001001J
                                          jt1001001
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                                          I think Slackware from a Walnut Creek cd that someone acquired. I did not do much with it though just tinkering at the time.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @jt1001001
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                                            @jt1001001 said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                            I think Slackware from a Walnut Creek cd that someone acquired. I did not do much with it though just tinkering at the time.

                                            OMG, Walnut Creek!

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