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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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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:

                    rl01a.JPG

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

                      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 nunziatiM
                                    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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                                          • stacksofplatesS
                                            stacksofplates
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                                            This whole thread makes me feel like I'm the youngest person here.

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