What was your first Linux/Unix distro?
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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For those wondering, this is a DEC PDP11...

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@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..

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@gjacobse all fancy and stuff.
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What I played Oregon Trail on in the mid 70's
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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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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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Redhat no gui was my first exposure to linux. Shortly after, Suse.
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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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@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!
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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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@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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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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@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!