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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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      stacksofplates
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      First attempt was Sabayon. First time I actually started doing stuff was Ubuntu.

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        bnrstnr
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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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          PenguinWrangler
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          Mandrivia

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            CloudKnight
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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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              momurda
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              SimplyMEPIS

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                DustinB3403
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                RedHat 3 or 4 setup a web server on it from my old man's place.

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                  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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                    triple9
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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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                      gjacobse
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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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                        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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                          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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                              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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                                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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                                  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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                                    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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                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      For those wondering, this is a DEC PDP11...

                                      0_1508433873687_Pdp-11-40.jpg

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                                        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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                                          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:

                                            http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/IMAGES/pdp11/rl01a.JPG

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