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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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    • triple9T
      triple9
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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
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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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                            • gjacobseG
                              gjacobse @gjacobse
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                              @gjacobse

                              The platter drive:

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

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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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