1992 after reading this...
I ftp'ed version 0.11 on January 23rd 1992 and booted it on 386 PC at Wellington City Council (New Zealand).
I downloaded the 0.11 root and boot floppies after reading this reply in comp.os.msdos: Quote:
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1994 SUSE on a lot of floppy's, Took weeks Na Months to get some worthwhile software working, but then it was a steep learning curve.
The reason I kept trying is it crashed much' much' less than Windoze. 3 I think. Life without Linux is like a life without joy. |
This is a convoluted one for me to answer.
In the 90s, I was using a mix of Sun stuff on big iron (we still had that then) and a lot of Windows stuff on the desktop/workstations. However, being a geeky kinda guy, I played with Linux multiple times - but didn't "use" it for much of anything. I'd keep poking at it, here and there, until the mid-2000s. In 2007, I sold and retired. It was not long after that I moved to Linux exclusively. I've used Linux exclusively ever since. So, I'm not sure when I started using Linux. |
I started using from 2013..using it at only embedded systems...so 2013
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Early 1998 (Red Hat Linux 5.0)
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1999 - I tested using the CDs offered with magazines dealing with Linux.
I tested using the CDs offered with magazines dealing with Linux. |
1997
I got really pissed of using Windows, always errors, always reinstall, always internet problems, getting slower and slower.. That time I choose S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 as my first desktop distribution. To be truth, I was not able to install it by myself. I was not able to choose the right option for Lilo. And the whole installation took me very very long with Disk and CD-ROM. That time was no USB-memory-stick After finishing the installation I need to set where to install the lilo boot manager.. failed.. Then I had to reinstall it again for hours. Again and again... Until a guy, about 30 km away helped me. |
Hey, I like your handle!
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2010 or maybe 2011
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1998. I bought the boxed version of Redhat 5.2 at Price Club which is now Costco. It went on an IBM Aptiva with a 333mhz processor and 32mb of ram with Gnome as the GUI. LILO was the boot loader. Good times....
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I had an Aptiva once. I can't remember now what I ran on it. It had a weird format with a separate box for media. Were they all like that?
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circa 2000/2001
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@ michael@actrix #151, my guess is 92-93? ;)
I think it was 2010 here, still a lusr, but I feel like Code:
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I first tried GNU/Linux in 2007 on a Live KNOPPIX CD. I first actually installed it at home in Feb-2008 (Ubuntu 7.10) so I chose that in the poll.
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2001. Red Hat 7 "Seawolf"
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