What Was Your First Linux Distribution?

[Michael]

I just thought I would ask what your first Linux distribution was that you ever tried.

My first distribution that I used way back when was Mandrake.

[Moustacha]

First one I used was Fedora Core 2, my dad got me onto it. He's been using *nix since the mid '80s, so you can tell me doesn't have much love for windows, hehe.

[glussier]

Slackware, back in 1995 or 1996 and Redhat since 1998. I'm still using both.

I tried Mandrake and I didn't liked-it much, tried Ubuntu for a few days. I'm not that much of a distrowhore so I keep using what works for me, Slackware and Redhat/Fedora.

[deanjo]

Corel Linux 1.0

[falko]

RedHat 6.1 (got it in a book), then 7.(something) shortly thereafter. However, I really cut my teeth on RedHat 9.

I have also used Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, and 5. Then switched to Debian unstable not too long ago.

[Svartalf]

Heh... All of you are young'uns... >:-)

Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux 1.0, followed up by Slackware when Yggdrasil bailed out of the distribution business.

[mlau]

started with SuSE 5.3, switched to Redhat 8 when it was
released, got annoyed with it after a week (always had to install
some damned -devel rpms for some trivial source package) and finally switched to Gentoo.

[smp-freak]

I played with two of them, however My "First" one was mandrake 7.0 I then dumped that quickly and used Redhat 7.1 and used Redhat faithfully to Redhat 9

[glussier]

Heh... All of you are young'uns... >:-)

Not really, I started working as an assembler programmer on an IBM 360/35 under Dos power back in 1970.

[Svartalf]

Not really, I started working as an assembler programmer on an IBM 360/35 under Dos power back in 1970.

ROFLMAO! I think I was referring to the relative age of when they got into Linux... You've got me beat a little bit on the being in the industry by a few years- I started my futzing with computers about around 1976 or so and got to professionally doing things on computers about around 1987. An IBM 360/35 under DOS? You know that kind of dates you, don't you? >:-)