What was your first Linux/Unix distro?
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I should add that I sought Linux out at that time because I had been using UNIX and VMS and could not stand how bad Windows was. I had been using Amiga from 1987 - 1994, then Solaris and VMS. By ~1997, I wanted UNIX at home and was looking for a way to do that.
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To make things a little more spicy, can you add:
what was your first Linux distro that made you venture over, and why? First impressions?
Or something along those lines... To the 1st post?
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I manged to get Slackware installed from a CD in the back of a 3" thick book. I remember the joy of getting Xwindows working and getting my modem to work. I'm pretty sure that was 1996.
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Well, as I previously posted, but then removed from the OP, my first dip was in the mid to late 90's with Redhat or Mandrake. They both installed from floppies.
I didn't stick with either, as I was mainly playing games on my PC and didn't get that from Linux.
I still haven't made any type of transition to using it as my desktop.
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In my Linux classes back in the days, it was mix of SUSE (KDE) and Red Hat (No GUI). But I personally was using Ubuntu for desktop and servers.
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In the late 90's, I touched Linux a little here and there to test it out, but I honestly can't remember what distro it was... it may have even been FreeBSD. For some reason, Debian comes to mind, but I don't know for sure.
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.
It wasn't until the early 2000's, like 2005ish, maybe earlier, that I stuck it on something again, to give it a real go, and that was Ubuntu 4 or 5.something. Back then I was deep into 2003/WindowsXP, so I compared it to that. And again, it didn't compare. But it was a so much better experience than before. That's when I realized it was actually something worth using.
It wasn't until I started using it as servers a few years later that I actually preferred it for some tasks over Windows.
Today, I prefer Fedora for home/business use, where I can get away with it if it makes sense where appropriate.
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First attempt was Sabayon. First time I actually started doing stuff was Ubuntu.
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Shortly after I graduated HS I acquired a copy of Red Hat 8 (I think, cross referenced wiki article with approx. date), like @Dashrender I didn't give it much of a chance as I was mostly gaming at the time.
Ubuntu server was the first that I really actually used a lot. No idea what version, but it was in the mid-late 2000s. I was mostly using it for LAMP stack. I know it's bad, but Ubuntu is still my linux of choice for most things as that's what I'm most familiar with.
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Mandrivia
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Ubuntu 6.06 was the first main distribution I used, at the time I was running a computer shop and installed it on a few cheap machines we sold that didn't have windows licences, It worked great. I remember I ordered a load of cd's from canonical which had the printed case and cd which I gave away free to customers to try, I did use other linux distro's as well for file and password recovery of windows machines, I couldn't tell you what they were though because I can't remember.
These days I'm quite a fan of Ubuntu Server Edition and for GUI i'm quite a fan of Deepin.
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SimplyMEPIS
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RedHat 3 or 4 setup a web server on it from my old man's place.
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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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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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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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@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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@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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@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.
