What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

[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

[matteo nunziati]

@travisdh1 said in What was your first Linux/Unix distro?:

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!

My bet was on you and irix or similar