is Ubuntu 06, and since then, I've come through every single release of Ubuntu til the 14.04.03, playing with different "flavours" like Kde,Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, MATE.

But I'd not exclusive, some experience in Mint and even Puppy has been interesting

RedHat 5.0 from 1999 is CD that I still keep.
In fackt my first CD was Slack 7.0 but ...

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And this is how it looks like.

This is never going to be the oldest one in the thread, but here goes:

"Ubuntu 8.04 sixpack" magazine cover disk (actually a DVD) from issue 93 of "Linux Magazine" in August 2008.


That's actually the only "official" disk that I have - my others are all home-made disks from .iso images, as are most people's Linux disks these days I believe.

Some of my distros were downloaded from hotspots. I really didn't like the early Ubuntu distro but, even tho it's slow, 14.04 isn't bad. Fedora has been on my laptop for three years and is much more stable than before. CAELinux 2011 was exciting but 2013 was better. I've found a way to upgrade to Xubuntu14.04. Not recommended. Not for the faint of heart. Knoppix on a stick is impressive and has come in handy. The CAELinux is my main squeeze except for when coursework demands otherwise.
I recommend Linux to my peeps who have to move on from XP/Vista. They mostly just need access to FB and email anyway. HA!

Thanks for supporting open source.

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The oldest version of Linux is UBUNTU 12.04LTS which came with the magazine PC Pro (April 2011) it is now on my fathers Acer Laptop I am now using Linux Mint 17 (Qiana) (Cinnamon) 64bit, I just don't know where the disc is now as it is now Obsolete.

I had Caldera, Red Hat 4.2, Mandrake and others

but the best (worst) was Slackware .98 on 44 Floppies -

ah memories ,my first would be AAPL 2 basic , casset load
i threw away my 1. and other dos disks away also since they were not readable any more , also DR DOS , IBM DOS and manuals , i have a 386KOMP in storage still , with 5 1/4 floppies drives [ and a box of 3.5 drives some where ],
and do not know what happened to my IBM OS/2 box set !

This (I think) is the earliest I have. 1994 - You can just make it out from the cover.

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Debian 3.1r0a CDs bought from linuxcd.org, first linux distro I was able to get my first computer to boot properly.
Used Debian for ~6 years before I got tired of breaking apt and found Slackware. :3

EDIT//
Seeing these floppies and dates make me feel young again.

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The oldest ones I have are from March 1995. I was running Slackware
then. One version is the Trans-Ameritech Systems LinuxWare 1.0.




The other is InfoMagic March 1995 version.

RedHat Linux 5.2 here (1998), for both Intel and Alpha computers!

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Jeremy,
I have, among others, Linux Storm 2000 & Mandriva 7.0 2000.

I have a picture, but can't figure out how to post it here.

Retired machinist, 73 years old, live in Ohio, USA

I remember Linux in its infancy and coworkers talking of its Rage. But at the
time I was perfectly satisfied with Dos3.3 and Windows 3.0...and Netscape was
on the Horizon...and all was good....and I stayed the track thru Dos6.2 and
Win 3.11 awaiting the largely anticipated Chicago...which ultimately became
Windows 95...

And I dismissed Linux...Funny at that time they would download it on to 3.5"
floppies...And today I am running Puppy off of an SD card...

At that time, Linux just sounded like a far-fetched idea to put Unix on a PC
anyway..

Anyways about six years later when Microsoft had grown to a point where it was like
they were trying to convince everybody out of their money in terms of keeping to date
with their software meant having to throw away current hardware "486DX-XX
based" in favor of Pentium XXX to run the Windows 95/98/2000 products...and not
just the processors, I mean PC architecture in general majorly changed...
and it really cost to keep up...

I began looking at alternatives.."Linux"...Because Apple wasn't cheap either..
I was not going to buy another computer just because Microsoft was moving on
to its next iteration of Windows...And at that time was exactly what I felt that
Microsoft had us pretty much by the collar...

Plus back then it seems PC hardware Performance/$$ was a lot less than now or
better said "You can get a lot better performance out of today's computer for
the money than you could 15 years ago" And at that time it was touted that
Linux could also run on 286, 386, and 486 machines using the small amounts of memory
(1 or 2 megabytes) that came with those machines that current versions of 95/NT
just would not run on....

Anyhow...enough babble...I dusted off some old books etc and found

RedHat 4.2, Caldera ~1999, TurboLinux ~2000, and Debian 2.1 and more...

Unfortunately the system would only allow me to upload the RedHat...I guess
the other photos take too much space?? I

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Hello everybody,

This is my first post.

I apparently can't attach photos or use img tags, so I am not able to show my photos.

I have the book "Linux Unleashed - Second Edition". It features an included CD with Slackware 3.0 with kernel version 1.3.18 (among others). The copyright of the book is 1996. I was using Linux previously to this on a 386 from a floppy install, don't remember the flavor.

I am now getting back into Linux programming more. I am using Linux Mint 17 Mate, and I am very pleased with it.

Ced

You are the champion, then!!!! ;-)

PS: I'll have to check my CDs. Original ones I think Caldera Linux 1.2 was my first one, along with Conectiva 5. I have CDs that came in some magazine. Then I have some recorded ones from ISO files or so...
Today I still have ~30 CDs but I tend to throw them away and keep only the newer version (in fact, these days, I only have the ISO files on an external HD) and perhaps some very old or, as I said, original/labelled fancy CDs or DVDs, like a Kubuntu 7.04 I got from the UK by mail, Debian 6 I got in an international Libre Software Forum, etc. ;-)