your 1st linux distro
 

surprisingly a quick search (nothing too deep) didnt find this thread so i made it!


ok the 1st linux i ever used was ubuntu 5.04

Debian Woody when Woody was the unstable version.

First installed for me: Fedora Core 5
First I installed: gNewSense ---> gee-nuisance

Mandrake Linux 6.1 sold as "Linux For Windows" installed as a virtual partition to a FAT32 filesystem. It didn't support my video card and was washed out and the screen was 4 times the size of my monitor.
Suse 6.4 with better driver support installed to it's own partition worked much better.

Err... RedHat 6.2 picked up from a magazine. Not that I was successful in using it properly though :p

A customized single CD version of Redhat 8.0 obtained from a magazine....But I forgot name of that distro :(

Anyway, I successfully installed it and it was working pretty well :)

Mandrake 9.1, now known as Mandriva. I even paid the $125 for the PowerPack!!!!

I was using unix via a shell account from 1991-1993, but my first linux distro was Caldera eDesktop 2.4 back in 1995.

Debian 'Potato' (testing), switched to 'SID' a few months before Potato was declared 'stable'.

Caldera's dead now isn't it?

I think you misundersttod the thread. tommytomthms5 was asking what was the first distro we ever used, that doesn't mean we are still using it.

I think if I remember, I used caldera for a year then moved on to redhat.

Today, I currently use arch linux.

- Cheers

Slackware 7.1, then kinda left Linux. Tried Linux again few years later, Mandrake 9.2, then I got to my senses and went back to Slackware version 10.0, and been following Slackware since.

Caldera is alive and suing as SCO.

Aah. Just wonderful

RedHat 6.2 installed in school at some install fest.... it was dual boot...