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View Poll Results: What was your first Linux distro?
SuSE 4 10.53%
Redhat / Fedora 13 34.21%
Gentoo 0 0%
Slackware 6 15.79%
Debian 2 5.26%
KNOPPIX 0 0%
Mandrake / Mandriva 6 15.79%
*ubuntu 4 10.53%
Other (please post) 3 7.89%
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-20-2006, 08:39 PM   #1
burninGpi
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Location: Fort McMurray, Canada
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What was your first linux distro?


I Just want to see what everyone started with.
 
Old 12-20-2006, 08:42 PM   #2
redhatrosh
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Registered: May 2004
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.
 
Old 12-20-2006, 08:49 PM   #3
ozar
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Location: USA
Distribution: Arch Linux
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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.
 
Old 12-20-2006, 08:50 PM   #4
Brian1
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Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
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.

Brian
 
Old 12-20-2006, 09:02 PM   #5
jacook
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Townsville, Australia
Distribution: PCLinuxOS .93 Junior
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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

that was it for me still using it today

/Rant

Jake

Last edited by jacook; 12-20-2006 at 09:05 PM.
 
Old 12-26-2006, 09:02 AM   #6
monkeynuts
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Distribution: Mepis
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The first distro I tried was Suse, dual booting with XP. I wasn't too keen on this, and so tried Ubuntu, Puppy...various others...

I'm now dual booting with Mepis/XP, and will happily get rid of XP when I'm fully able to!
 
Old 12-26-2006, 09:27 AM   #7
BlackHawk1966
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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.

Loving the Slackware.
 
Old 12-26-2006, 11:05 AM   #8
farslayer
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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Mandrake 5.2-7.2 -> Redhat 6.2-9 -> Debian 3.1
 
Old 12-26-2006, 11:08 AM   #9
derxob
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Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu
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Slackware 4 > bought SuSE and Mandrake > back to Slackware
 
Old 12-26-2006, 11:15 AM   #10
twilli227
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Location: S.W. Ohio
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Bought a boxed set, RedHat 7.3. Dual booted with no problems and the rest is history.
 
Old 12-26-2006, 11:20 AM   #11
samael26
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Location: France, Provence
Distribution: Debian
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Mandrake 9.2
Good enough to give me headaches when I first installed without knowing what a partition was ;-))
 
Old 12-26-2006, 11:24 AM   #12
Nylex
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Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware
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I think the first distro I used was Red Hat. I'm sure I used 7.3, but my first post here has 8.0 in it.
 
Old 12-26-2006, 11:49 AM   #13
craigevil
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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.
 
Old 12-26-2006, 02:11 PM   #14
reddazz
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Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
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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.
 
Old 12-26-2006, 02:38 PM   #15
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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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