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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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    • momurdaM
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      SimplyMEPIS

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      • DustinB3403D
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        RedHat 3 or 4 setup a web server on it from my old man's place.

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

          I didn't like it, perhaps because I was too young, didn't fully understand what I was doing, and/or it just feel too clunky/buggy. Because of that, I stuck with Win95/Win98.

          I was deep into the UNIX world before Windows 3.1 even released!

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          • triple9T
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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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                    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
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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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                                    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
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                                          My first one was umm... Debian. I got it on CD from a magazine somewhere.

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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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