What was your first Linux kernel version?

Richard.Stone · 08-24-2020, 10:45 AM

0.11 or 0.12 that fit (easily) onto a single microdisk ca. 1992, downloaded from a BBS on my modem, over an analog phone line.

It didn't do much more than have a comfortable, Unix-like shell. I started with Unix on SunOS while in college, then ran MS Xenix, Minix, Concentric, etc. on my personal computers afterward. I was originally a Slacker once distributions became a thing, though these days I wind up on Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS most often for the mass market support.

dlj0 · 08-24-2020, 10:52 AM

0.96c

FrenchGuy · 08-25-2020, 03:40 AM

Don't remember the kernel version. Looking for an escape path from Windows my first taste of Linux was with Mandrake 5.1 (based on RedHat 5.1 I think). Stayed with Mandrake/Mandriva then Mageia. Then discovered Arch and stick with it since then.
Jean-Pierre

glasdave · 08-25-2020, 03:53 AM

The first one that I used was Mandrake 6.1, which was kernal 2.2 I think.It came on a c.d. that a friend picked
up at CES that year.

hazel · 08-25-2020, 04:44 AM

I can't remember exactly but it was definitely version 2, pre-udev. The distro was Red Hat 6, if that helps.

johnson1545 · 08-26-2020, 11:33 AM

Mine was Suse 7.3, Now I am using Linux Mint and have made more than 20 installs when I upgrade friends.

old grouch · 08-26-2020, 01:26 PM

To the 'little old lady' in the U K....All the names and numbers dazzle me.

btmiller · 08-26-2020, 10:28 PM

I bought a secondhand book with a Red Hat 5.2 disk that booted Kernel 2.0.36, so that was the first for me. However, I later inherited an ancient Slackware box that ran kernel 1.2.something.