How old were you when you installed your first Linux distro?

JezzerP · 01-30-2003, 04:00 AM

First time with Red Hat 8.0 a month ago.....at the tender age of 32....juts because I could!!

membrax · 01-30-2003, 04:17 AM

Installed when 30, getting 32 this year

ajk · 01-30-2003, 04:26 AM

First time SuSE 6.4, don't know... 18, 19... Later SuSE 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and now (22) Mandrake 9.0

and still learnig... next step will be Debian or slack....

ddpicard · 01-30-2003, 11:13 AM

Red Hat 6 (if I recall correctly) when I was 26, will be 33 this year. I have installed most of the major distros, but found my favorite......... SLACK

Dave

arlothemoo · 01-30-2003, 10:29 PM

14

ha youngest so far (am i the youngest on the boards?? not been 15 for too long tell me if im not)

and it was mandrake 8.2

trickykid · 01-31-2003, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by arlothemoo
14

ha youngest so far (am i the youngest on the boards?? not been 15 for too long tell me if im not)

and it was mandrake 8.2

I think we had a 11 or 12 year old once.. so I don't think so. Too bad. We have plenty of 14 and 15 year olds though.

Malicious · 01-31-2003, 07:53 AM

I was trying to figure out when I started with Linux and in looking thru all of my old CDs for release dates, I would say that my first install was prior to 1995 which would have made me about 55. Even before the CDs (InfoMagic Developers Resource 1995, Slack 2.3, RedHat Mother's Day +0.1, kernel 1.2/1.3) I remember installing kernel 0.96 from floppies. Played a lot but never really used it for much until RH41 then stuck with RH52/X11R5 for what seemed like years.

MasterC · 01-31-2003, 08:00 AM

I do believe JimKyle has got you beat... Yep:
71:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=29950

Cool

Malicious · 01-31-2003, 08:22 AM

Yup, got me by a whole decade. I've known about Jim for years from his books (mainly Btrieve and Dos6 DG).

adas · 01-31-2003, 04:49 PM

17, still 17.
Not learned much but basics, and that X is 80% of time useless.

rockdw · 01-31-2003, 05:21 PM

Slack - in '95, Hmm. 23

leed_25 · 01-31-2003, 05:34 PM

I was 51 at the time. Slack.

rockdw · 01-31-2003, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by adas
17, still 17.
Not learned much but basics, and that X is 80% of time useless.

X isn't useless, it lets you have tons of xterms ;-)

bubba169 · 02-01-2003, 12:48 AM

I was 25 and it was about a year ago. My first distro was Vector Linux 1.8

JaseP · 02-03-2003, 09:16 AM

I think I was 29 when I tried installing SuSE 6.1 in 1998. I eventually wiped it off the system and went back to windoze for a while. Later I went to Mandrake 8.1, and currently I use Mandrake 8.2. I'll upgrade when the KT333 chipset is supported fully by the kernel (my current system uses the KT333).