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View Poll Results: What Was Your First Linux Distro?
Arch 6 0.23%
Bodhi 2 0.08%
CentOS 30 1.14%
Damn Small 8 0.30%
Debian 144 5.48%
Fedora 97 3.69%
Gentoo 11 0.42%
LFS 3 0.11%
Knoppix 52 1.98%
Lindows 8 0.30%
Mageia 0 0%
Mandrake 234 8.91%
Manjaro 4 0.15%
MEPIS 16 0.61%
Mint 88 3.35%
Novell 6 0.23%
openSUSE 50 1.90%
Other 92 3.50%
PCLinuxOS 18 0.69%
Puppy 23 0.88%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 24 0.91%
Red Hat Linux 452 17.21%
Sabayon 2 0.08%
Scientific 0 0%
Slackware 502 19.12%
SLS 29 1.10%
Sorcerer 1 0.04%
SuSE 183 6.97%
Turbolinux 11 0.42%
Ubuntu 436 16.60%
Vector 5 0.19%
Yellow Dog 10 0.38%
Yggdrasil 33 1.26%
Zorin 5 0.19%
Conectiva 6 0.23%
Linspire 4 0.15%
Mandriva 27 1.03%
MX Linux 1 0.04%
Pop_OS! 3 0.11%
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Old 07-18-2022, 12:47 PM   #946
sorgud
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Slackware

Slackware
 
Old 07-18-2022, 12:55 PM   #947
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red hat without internet install. i failed.
but the first i a was able to install with help of the network was gentoo.
 
Old 07-18-2022, 01:55 PM   #948
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My first Linux Distro was Thiz Linux
My first was Thiz Linux dial up, then Mandrake.
 
Old 07-18-2022, 02:27 PM   #949
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La Bible Linux
My first was a Red Hat 6.0 version that came free in the "la Bible Linux" in french, or "The Linux Bible", that we had to compile the Kernel from cd-roms that were included in between the pages of the Book. This book was MASSIVE!!!

Have a look for yourselves.
 
Old 07-18-2022, 03:37 PM   #950
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Slackware!
I don't remember the specific version, but it was in 1994.
 
Old 07-18-2022, 04:56 PM   #951
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What Was Your First Linux Distro?
Red Hat Linux 6
 
Old 07-18-2022, 05:15 PM   #952
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My first Linux experience was in Oct 2004 with "Ubuntu 4.10 postal mailed to users free of charge in [live and install] CD format."
My first install was Mandrake.
As of this writing I primarily use Linux Mint Debian Edition 5.
 
Old 07-18-2022, 07:36 PM   #953
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My first Linux OS wasUbuntu inside Windows 7. Somebody had to do it.
 
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Old 07-18-2022, 09:39 PM   #954
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I started to learn Linux in 2017 which was Red Hat Enterprises. That time I was beginner and new in this sector. When I started learnig, it was personal experience that I was totally surprised from the Features of terminal. Through 5 years of journey in linux
it built my career strong and I am looking forward to hold a prestigious position in this field.
 
Old 07-19-2022, 12:00 AM   #955
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Slackware in 1996
First real computer job I landed gave me access to a bunch of 3.5" disks, ewaste, network and I booted up slackware. Then proceeded to learn vi.
 
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Old 07-19-2022, 02:43 AM   #956
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Slackware 3
 
Old 07-19-2022, 10:46 AM   #957
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red hat 6
 
Old 07-19-2022, 01:37 PM   #958
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What was my first Linux distro
Quote:
Originally Posted by hitest View Post
My first distro was Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. Caldera later morphed into SCO.
My first was 1998 Red Hat 5.0 in a nice box with a red hat on it, bought in a computer shop in Honolulu while passing through from Japan. After that I used CALDERA for a while until they went crazy suing people. 2.2 was the first distro to have KDE??? They had a great install program and I really was angry with them when they went lawyer crazy. SUSE, MANDRAKE, MANDRIVA, LINUX MINT, FREE SOLARIS used them all. Linux Mint at the present.

It is strange to be a NEWBIE when I joined well over a decade back...

Cheers
Last edited by zxr250cc; 07-19-2022 at 01:40 PM.
 
Old 07-20-2022, 04:13 AM   #959
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afair my first Linux distro was Slackware at ~1996, but before i already had tried Unix System V ~1994 :-)
 
Old 07-20-2022, 02:08 PM   #960
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Redhat 5.2
 
  


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