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View Poll Results: What was your first Linux distro?
Location: Student of University of Mumbai, Maharastra State, India
Distribution: Redhat Linux 9.0, Knoppix LIVE CD, Ubuntu Live CD, Kubuntu Live CD
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My first GNU/Linux distro was Redhat Linux 9.0 and I still continue to use it. Though I have installed Kubuntu on another Hard disk drive, but haven't connected it to my system. I have tried a few LIVE CD's which include Knoppix, Damn Small Linux (DSL) and Puppy Linux.
Red Hat, then Mandrake, then experimented with about 45 other distros before finally sticking with Arch Linux. Arch has worked well for me for the last two years.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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Started with Caldera 1.4. Kernel 2.0 something, KDE 1.0, Not sure about Gnome or whatever it was called then. Maybe not till I went to caldera 2.4 and upgraded to KDE 2.0 and still had KDE 1.0 installed. Moved onto Redhat 6 and been in the Redhat world ever since.
Yeah mine was RH8 I think?? I know it was redhat but not sure of the version. I was using this at TAFE you call it College in the States. I HATED it then one day I typed "linux" into google and a site for Ubuntu came up D/L 4.10 tried it Loved it... 5.04 then came about didn't like it as much kept with it, cut to 5.10 Loathed it..
then tried SUSE 9.2, 9.1, 9.3 Hated it. Cut to Mandrake 9.2 LOVED it still do. Mandrake then became Mandriva and it became a Commerical Distro It was Bloated and took ages to install. I wanted a lighter option, I still loved Mandrake so somthing along those Lines again googled somthing like "Mandrake 1 CD install" PCLinuxOS poped right up D/L tried it, IN LOVE with it
Started with RedHat ver.something. Complete failure and a long time away from linux. Then Slackware (lol), then PcLos, and right back to Slackware and Vector.
I was introduced to Linux by a friend giving me Livecds with Kanotix and PCLinuxOS.Ran PCLinuxOS for a while but it always seemed to get messed up when doing big updates or updating the kernel. Also tried dozens of other Livecds, Xandros, Mandrake, Open Suse, Vector, *buntus. Been running Debian Sid for over two years and loving it.
My very first distro was Debian 2.1 (Potato). Trying to configure X was almost impossible and I got fed up and ended up looking for another distro. I then got a copy of Mandrake 5.x and Redhat 5.x which more or less worked out of the box for me.
I can not remember its been awhile... Redhat 4.x (not RHEL) or there abouts. I went with Mandrake since it also worked out of the box with my hardware.
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