What Was Your First Linux Distro?

duaneP777 · 09-04-2019, 08:01 PM

It was about 1996 and it was Slackware 3.0, IIRC. It was a stack of 3.5" floppies. Later, I wandered through Red Hat and Debian, tried Ubuntu, and came back to Slackware, currently Slackware64-14.2. I also use Centos and HELiOS at work for various projects.

JuhanLeemet · 09-04-2019, 08:37 PM

I started out on BSD Unix, then SunOS, Solaris, and drifted into Linux (Slackware, all there was). Progressed through a number of distros (for various reasons), and settled on Ubuntu LTS. For many years, I felt that Solaris was much more mature and stable, but Linux has become my staple. Workstation is still a small MacBook Pro.

xray55 · 09-04-2019, 09:09 PM

Centos 6/ Ubuntu 14

haroldpga · 09-04-2019, 09:09 PM

Slackware, more years ago than I would like to admit...

thomasmoore17 · 09-04-2019, 10:04 PM

Slackware V3.4 1998

doep100 · 09-04-2019, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Z038

My first was a retail boxed version of Red Hat Linux from the late '90s, I think it was version 6.0.

Same for me. I think it was the first official boxed release. Still have it around somewhere.
Before that I played around with SCO Unix. Those were the days...

khentiamentiu · 09-04-2019, 11:00 PM

A better release than most out there at the time, as in MUCH easier to install. My work OS was IRIX at the time, so it was refreshing to be able to use something like UNIX at home.

FlyingMG · 09-05-2019, 12:21 AM

It goes back in August 1995. My first try was with SuSE Linux with kernel 1.2.12 ...

imarkovic · 09-05-2019, 12:58 AM

SuSE 10 KDE/Gnome in a year ~2002 was my first install a use until I messed up DE... It took for about 15 years to find out Slackware

acoljub · 09-05-2019, 02:14 AM

Yggdrasil

Pogo1 · 09-05-2019, 03:07 AM

PCLinuxOS.

During install from a CD, it turned off the wifi, then couldn't find a network to continue installing from...

atmouse · 09-05-2019, 04:42 AM

Ubuntu 8

zeebra · 09-05-2019, 04:56 AM

I am surprised not many people says Debian. It's and old distro, I think the 2nd or 3rd I tried after Slackware. Not sure if it was before or after I tried SuSe.

Less people have voted Debian than Mandrake which is quite shocking. Slackware, Red Hat and Ubuntu leading the vote is not really shocking.

DutchRaider · 09-05-2019, 05:33 AM

I am sure you are mistaken, X was born way before the Linux kernels , as I used it on HP workstations in 1984 already. X was part of HPUX , Sun Solaris and any other Unix variant.

TJ - DutchRaider

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Originally Posted by anbj

I started with kernel pre. 1.0 on an 80286 and well before X was born.
Downloaded 40+ diskettes to install and I can't remember which dist. it was.
I had 2 Facit-Twist terminals on serial lines that I used about a year before I fully trusted X.

I have tried a lot of distros, but since many years I use Slackware. When I tried Kubuntu last year, I only had a lot of trouble knowing how f* to configure it for my needs, so it was only a short test before I came back to Slackware.

Same with Redhat - I have no fine control on the system as with Slackware.

DutchRaider · 09-05-2019, 05:43 AM

You should be looking at it this way like me , any distro based on Debian is actually a Debian Distro. So the numbers of all of those should be included in Debian.

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Originally Posted by zeebra

I am surprised not many people says Debian. It's and old distro, I think the 2nd or 3rd I tried after Slackware. Not sure if it was before or after I tried SuSe.

Less people have voted Debian than Mandrake which is quite shocking. Slackware, Red Hat and Ubuntu leading the vote is not really shocking.