My very first "install" was a pair of bootable floppies from tsx-11.mit.edu. The long awaited free unix was almost here. But I was running email and Usenet on SCO and I'd grown used to The X Window System and couldn't switch easily. Finally dropped SCO for Softlanding fulltime in April '93.

Softlanding was junk. Too much of a project for one person to take on. Slackware did a good job of cleaning up the mess. H.J. LU's "release" gave the best quality install until Debian and Red Hat came along. If you don't remember Lu's "Release" the closest thing today is Linux From Scratch. Very educational if you have the time and a system to play with.

Xandros. Like Linspire was limited at Debain 4 when I had my eeepc 901 dual ssd netbook.

Good thing AntiX/Puppy/ and other distros could fix that limitation.

Good thing one could run anything when the usb drive was setup correctly and save files could be accessed.
Then xandros could be ran along with the linux of your choice.



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This should be near the top of the list, concerning, "What do you remember about your first Linux install?"

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During my first Linux install, it's probably a really bad idea to do, or other similar command, "$ rm -rf /"
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$ sudo rm -rf / === npm install : programming

Is this what you mean

The year was 1996, I was installing my very first ever Linux distro, Redhat ... what the heck is "/" ...

2016 or 2017, Q4OS Linux, took me a while to figure out my old laptop would only accept CDs for installation. The ISO may have been small enough, but it was disappointingly closed down AND too slow for me.

At the end of 2003 I installed some variant of Debian, and after a month it was boring me to distraction. Installed Slackware 9.1, and have remained a slacker ever since. Kinda was one before that, anyway.

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Well it was the early 2000's. Was very new to Linux and thought Gentoo seemed like a good place to start.

Need I say more? LOL

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buying 3 16 GB flashe drives for backup and the install and then took the red pill and went into the rabbit hole

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I first installed Red Hat Linux in 1994 or 1995 (I forget). I recall getting the disks either with a book at Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale or maybe Egghead Software. Overall, since I had suffered through countless installs of Novell Netware, OS/2 and Win 3.1, it was amazing how easily Red Hat installed, loaded and worked with minimal fuss. The only glitch was that I had a Winmodem installed (who remembers those?) and once I figured it out, I swapped for my trusty serial US Robotics modem and was able to connect via my Earthlink dial-up connection and it was off to surf the handful of sites we had available at that time. Admittedly, most of my connections were still directly to BBS systems, but I digress.

I had already had training and been using *nix-like OS so I was in love with Linux from the start. I have tried many different distros over the years and there have been bumps in the road, but the love has never subsided. For all the old-timers on here (like me), who remembers the holy wars of BSD v SVR4?? I am pretty glad that ethos never really made it into the Linux communities and most of us float across different distros at different times with minimal tension from community members. And admittedly, distro hopping is part of the fun of Linux. Who has not tried Knoppix, Mint, Mandriva, Gentoo or Kali? Try them all!! Especially these days when almost all these distros are a simple KVM/VBox/LXC/VMW (and some hardware resources I suppose) away from running on your desktop next to each other.

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I remember the first. I guess it was losing my OS virginity. I was led to an ".ios" and was told how to make my own install CD. This brought me to dedicating one desktop to this new system. I had been installing "Virus 95" on other people's machines and finally saw the vast, almost limitless possibility and speed of this new OS. I shed daily blessings on Linus and his work which is so much better than anything else.

The force is entirely contained in Linux.

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Yeah, I install kubuntu 6.10... but I'm loving Gnome2-Mate!

Fedora was my first 'Distro'. Mid 2000s (Zod, iirc). Only thing I did on Window$ for a few years was gaming... and it was enough, at the time, to keep me on Window$ more often than not.

Lucky for me, now, I grew up and only log in to a game every other week, or sometimes every other month. Completely Window$ free for near a year now.

Let me guess. You were very successful and now the leading Linux guru in your state.

Or...it was a miserable failure

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I'd had enough of windoze nonsense and antivirus costs on multiple machines and huge constant "updates" slowing things down to a drip and I then decided to investigate Ubuntu OS but feared the engineering software I was using at the time would not be available. Was I so wrong, not only was the install relatively easy I even got my wireless connectivity via WIFI hotspot to my mobile going....

Sure way back then the software I needed to use was rather shoddy but it has improved so much that today there is no ways I would consider looking at running windoze os for any software needs. Thanks to the amazing efforts of the open software community.

The process of the actual install went relatively well even with the dual boot with windoze as a fall back available at that time, definitely not glitch free, but with a HDD available to format and start over it seemed for someone who had no clue what to expect and there were many ways it seemed to get things done and the change from windows install to Ubuntu was a change but manageable.

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