What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

[gjacobse]

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

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

This is more like what we had..

[scottalanmiller]

@gjacobse all fancy and stuff.

[gjacobse]

@gjacobse

The platter drive:

[gjacobse]

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

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[dafyre]

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

[marcinozga]

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

[brandon220]

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

[jmoore]

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

[scottalanmiller]

@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.

[matteo nunziati]

@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...

[jmoore]

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

[jt1001001]

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

[scottalanmiller]

@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!

[stacksofplates]

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

[Dashrender]

@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.

[bigbear]

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

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

What was the war like, grandpa?

[travisdh1]

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?

4x Octane Workstations

2x O2 Workstations

Finally, 4x Indigo2 Workstations

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

[nadnerB]

I first started with Ubuntu I believe it was 7.1.

I've been in an on again/off again relationship with the OS ever since.

[dbeato]

First Linux Distro was Ubuntu 6.04 and Mandriva 7.0