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    What was your first Linux/Unix distro?

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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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              gjacobse
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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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                JaredBusch @triple9
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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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                  dafyre
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                  My first one was umm... Debian. I got it on CD from a magazine somewhere.

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                    marcinozga
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                    Corel Linux. Then I think RedHat 3 or 4, and Mandrake, I don't remember the version now.

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                      brandon220
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                      Redhat no gui was my first exposure to linux. Shortly after, Suse.

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                        jmoore
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                        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

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                          scottalanmiller @jmoore
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                          @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.

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                            matteo nunziati @Dashrender
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                            @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...

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                              jmoore @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller well guess that was it, hard to rememeber, if it was 1995 then i was 21. I liked it btw

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                                jt1001001
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                                I think Slackware from a Walnut Creek cd that someone acquired. I did not do much with it though just tinkering at the time.

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                                  scottalanmiller @jt1001001
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                                  @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!

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                                    stacksofplates
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                                    This whole thread makes me feel like I'm the youngest person here.

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                                      Dashrender @stacksofplates
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                                      @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.
                                      😉

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                                        bigbear @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

                                        What was the war like, grandpa?

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                                          travisdh1
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                                          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?
                                          0_1508466194371_6d0f8bb2-a2ca-46d3-930a-7fb5a5251128-image.png
                                          4x Octane Workstations
                                          0_1508466293103_09b7d8de-3b01-432e-b324-102a9e32a76d-image.png
                                          2x O2 Workstations
                                          0_1508466410839_7bc44290-b58f-4fd1-95e9-a856c5e76ee0-image.png
                                          Finally, 4x Indigo2 Workstations
                                          0_1508466492288_1c053187-679e-4bab-8973-ae1ba8b9dd8c-image.png

                                          It was expensive, but man they made good looking kit!

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                                            nadnerB
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                                            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.

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