RogueHart Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 as the topic title says. what was the first linux distro you had any experience with? personally mine was hal91 http://chris.silmor.de/hal91/ its cause i was a kid(prolly 12 or so. maybe a bit older) and i was impatient so i wanted something i could download and use immediately. and the fact i didnt have my own system to work with was also a huge factor. so i picked a linux distro so small that it fit on a floppy disk. couldnt do much with it since i only knew batch up to that point. but after getting used to it i did have fun with it at school lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shido Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 fedora and i didnt know anything about linux so i switched back to windows lol but im downloading fedora 10 as we speak :) oh and ubuntustudio and mint :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord C Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I tried Sorcerer Linux (the pre-Gentoo) and some other weird distros like that, but my first real (and successful) Linux desktop installation was Mandrake. Enjoyed Mandrake for quite a while, before moving to Slackware, thinking I was pro *sigh*. Got tired of compiling every damn program from scratch, so I decided to give Ubuntu a try in 2005. Worked great, stuck with it since =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 fedora and i didnt know anything about linux so i switched back to windows lol but im downloading fedora 10 as we speak :) oh and ubuntustudio and mint :D ubuntu studio FTMFW!!!! my first linux experience: hal91 my first real linux use: knoppix live cd my first linux install: ubuntu studio which is also my main os now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupaRice Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Debian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor_M Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Ubuntu 6.06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcstool Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Not true Linux, I'm counting it since it was an open-source project at the time...BeOS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pants123 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Archlinux. Talk about diving in headfirst. >_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vmike Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Not true Linux, I'm counting it since it was an open-source project at the time...BeOS!!! Hmmm..... Redhat 7.1.... oh wait no I installed Slackware before that... and I think my first experience with open source OS was Free BSD, when I was working for an ISP at the age of 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 a old version of ubuntu back around late 2004, used it for a day or 2 then got frustrated with how much command line work it took to do simple things that I was used to doing with a few clicks in windows so I stuck with windows, and after a while I just used ubuntu live cds once in a while to run apps required a linux os Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 First attempt: Kubuntu Fire love: Arch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcninja Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Archlinux. Talk about diving in headfirst. >_< i know how you feel, i used SuSE at the age of 13 or so, then stopped for while, then ubuntu and fedora, i love ubuntu, fedora ive been ehh about i wanna try arch, but im not good at partitioning so i rely on WUBI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLuNK Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 First: CentOS Current: FreeBSD (Just for the learning aspect of Unix.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neinsager Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 My first Linux distro RedHat 6.X (i'am running now only Ubuntu(-eee)) Gerard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3N Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 started with an early version of suse linux.... then moved onto various other distro's including gentoo and centos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dragon Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 First: OpenSuse 9 Current: Ubuntu 8.10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 SuSE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Slackware but I used real OS before Fisher price UNIX. Solaris FTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erealz Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 redhat 6.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 first full install was centOS i've used ubuntu, DSL, Fedora and Backtrack since then. fovourite = DSL but its a pain to install to hdd :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhimself Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Knoppix LIVE CD:) im on Ubuntu 8.10 dual boot with Windows XP MCE on my laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 It was either SuSE or Gentoo, but I dropped it soon after for FreeBSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansichild Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Turbolinux 1.0, and Redhat 4.2. I remember seeing the ping of death exploit and that changed my view of security and hacking forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foo Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Redhat 6.1 Man it was a bitch trying to get my dial-up modem working with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swathe Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Hmmm was redhat back in 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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