What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

bnrstnr

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.

PenguinWrangler

Mandrivia

CloudKnight

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.

momurda

SimplyMEPIS

DustinB3403

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

scottalanmiller

@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!

triple9

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.

gjacobse

good grief... that was so long ago.. can't remember the distro.. but it ran on a DEC PDP 11/23

scottalanmiller

@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?

gjacobse

@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.

stacksofplates

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

stacksofplates

@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.

gjacobse

@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.