Debian 2.2 (Potato) 2000

Ancient thread, but mine was MCC (Manchester Computer Centre), it probably came on 2 floppies (boot and root), and I can't remember if X11 was included or if that was an extra floppy.

Xandros Desktop Professional 4.1

slack (redhat) Debian (madrake, FC)

I kind of forgot but it could be probably debian (etch).

Before Linux some systems I used were under SunOS, or HP-UX (yuck), there were these Sun workstations, and also Apollo.
Before that at school we used an HP-1000, running RTE, a huge memory of 1 or 2 (?) MB allowed like 20 students to do their work using 16kb partitions (or 32 kb for those with heavy tasks). As the "assistant" (student helping the staff part-time) I had to boot it on saturdays mornings, to do that we had to select the boot address ("word" address of 16 bits) in binary on the key panel, I think I still remember it, like 15-14-13-9-7-6-0), and then load it in the address register with a button.

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Centos server on work and home nas/router, Ubuntu for Desktop. Went back to Windows for desktop for a decade+ but used always Centos as server.
Then i became a Linux all in and are like a fox in a chicken farm testing it all. Learned that everything is a compromise.

[QUOTE=MickeJ;6430396 Learned that everything is a compromise.[/QUOTE] Well said!

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ubuntu 6.? got the cd from mail, dial up days.
still have 8.4 with the box as desktop, compwiz.

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Found Linux back in 1992, I think. bought a book with a CD in it. no distro back then just a TMW or something like that window manager and I thought the desktop eyes were cool. pain in the butt to install

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I started about a year and a half ago, I quickly tried a number of different Distros, if my recollection is correct my first was SOLUS with the KDE Desktop.

Slackware from the 90's, when I built my first computer. A 286 or 386sx then.

Zenwalk, one university professor request us to install a linux distro and I had an strange case, my pc was very old (a pentium II still being used around 2008) and don't had cd/dvd drive to boot, but I found that Zenwalk (as other Slackware distros) can boot using an iso from the hard drive always that the hard drive will be in fat format, and using a FreeDos disquette to run the boot loader, in perspective was very complex and I had a bit of luck because work at first attempts without damage in windows

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) for me. I remember becoming interested in Linux earlier, during Feisty Fawn, but decided to wait until Gutsy was released before installing it.

I've tried loads of distros over the years now, but currently use PopOS on my PC and Alma on my server. My favourite distro is probably Slackware thanks to its simplicity - it was the first distro on which I managed to get a custom kernel and FDE working properly (and reliably!)

Same. :-)

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