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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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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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                    • M
                      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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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @stacksofplates
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                                        @stacksofplates said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

                                        This whole thread makes me feel like I'm the youngest person here.

                                        If wired was here you probably wouldn't be.
                                        😉

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                                        • bigbearB
                                          bigbear @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

                                          What was the war like, grandpa?

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                                          • travisdh1T
                                            travisdh1
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                                            How did I miss this thread?

                                            IRIX - SGI Equipment, 1996

                                            1x Origin 2000 Server
                                            4x 64-bit CPU,
                                            1GB RAM,
                                            8x300GB 15k SCSI HDD

                                            Should I be concerned that I still remember the server specs?
                                            0_1508466194371_6d0f8bb2-a2ca-46d3-930a-7fb5a5251128-image.png
                                            4x Octane Workstations
                                            0_1508466293103_09b7d8de-3b01-432e-b324-102a9e32a76d-image.png
                                            2x O2 Workstations
                                            0_1508466410839_7bc44290-b58f-4fd1-95e9-a856c5e76ee0-image.png
                                            Finally, 4x Indigo2 Workstations
                                            0_1508466492288_1c053187-679e-4bab-8973-ae1ba8b9dd8c-image.png

                                            It was expensive, but man they made good looking kit!

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