your 1st linux distro

tommytomthms5 · 07-16-2008, 10:02 PM

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

weibullguy · 07-16-2008, 10:08 PM

Debian Woody when Woody was the unstable version.

phantom_cyph · 07-16-2008, 10:08 PM

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

2damncommon · 07-16-2008, 10:31 PM

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.

vharishankar · 07-16-2008, 11:06 PM

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

sheringp · 07-16-2008, 11:30 PM

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

Micro420 · 07-16-2008, 11:32 PM

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

dv502 · 07-16-2008, 11:50 PM

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

pinniped · 07-16-2008, 11:50 PM

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

phantom_cyph · 07-16-2008, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dv502

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

Caldera's dead now isn't it?

dv502 · 07-17-2008, 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phantom_cyph

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

Jeebizz · 07-17-2008, 12:08 AM

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.

2damncommon · 07-17-2008, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phantom_cyph

Caldera's dead now isn't it?

Caldera is alive and suing as SCO.

phantom_cyph · 07-17-2008, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2damncommon

Caldera is alive and suing as SCO.

Aah. Just wonderful

god_is_good478 · 07-17-2008, 12:38 AM

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