What was your first Linux/Unix distro?
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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.
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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
http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/IMAGES/pdp11/decwrit.JPG
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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.
