Suse 7.something
Actually bought it. Did not know you could just download it for free back then. But it did come with two books, that was kind of useful.

My first distro was Caldera 1.2 around '90/91...before that I used to read about linux in magazines and always wanted to try it.

Fedora core 5 now on centos mainly.

FredGS - you should correct that typo

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What typo??? I understand, well let's make it around 1992 or so. Whenever Caldera was around.

Been so long ago I can't remember anymore.

Knoppix 3.7
currently using PCLinuxOS 2007

My first distro was Slackware 2.2 (back in 1995).

Then a bunch of other distributions over the years after that, until I became a BSD bigot.

some old version of "linuxconsole" (french distro) that was on russian magazine's Xakep CD
it wasnt all that console, icewm loaded by default =)
i am thinking of getting it again

I started with Slack back in '95.

Suse 10 popped my cherry. But I like debian better. Ubuntu is good too.

Oscar, remember this CD set?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4774

I bought that one too. I tried I think 5.2 or possibly a redhat version from a magazine in 1997 or 1998 before I bought that Suse 7.2 set. My analogue modem was way too slow to download several CDs



Mons

Debian Sarge as Testing (so woody era, I think).

I managed to get my hands on a net install cd, and slowly worked my way up from there.

I first deployed slack with a version 1-something kernel back in 1997. Deployed it to play, but blew it off because it was too rough to be useable and at the time I was not in a position to take time hacking on it.

Tried again in 2001 or so with Mandrake 7.2. At the time, it was a lot better than the old slack had been, and barely passed the threshold of "useable" for me, so I kept it as a dual-boot. Over time, it improved and my time on Linux increased steadily as a result. In 2003 I decided that Linux was good enough that I could transition to it (I really wanted to be away from Windows) so I purchased VMWare Workstation, deployed Windows 2000 in it for things I needed Windows for, and booted Linux exclusively from then on. A subsequent workstation reorganization eliminated the capability to boot Windows, and to this day I use VMWare with Win2K or WinXP as needed, all hosted in Linux.

That's it!

Redhat 6.2 for me...