Machstorm Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 Open Suse 11.1 with KDE 4.1 and Gnome 2.24 Quote
foo Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 Yes, yes it was. Winmodems, gotta love them. Never. Damn those things to hell! :P Quote
h3%5kr3w Posted January 6, 2009 Posted January 6, 2009 omg! i remember winmodems... thats why i couldnt get mandrake on the net. but wasnt it the first distro with graphical install? Quote
Hushed Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Damn Small Linux. First the emulation of it, then installed it on my computer. Then switched to Debian. Then to Ubuntu. Quote
jkdelauney Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Well my first linux distro was Slack, though I don't remember what release. My first open source OS was FreeBSD 2.2.6 and I've spent a lot of time in *nix OSes since. Quote
K33BZ Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 1. Mandrake 8.2 was my first 2. Tried Redhat Fedora 6 Didnt like either one so i went back to Windoze, till I got fed up with their customer service Got ubuntu, and been with them ever since as my main OS, but also use Back Track 3, and Knoppix Oh and lil side note, my very 1st computer was a Commodore 64 :) Quote
K33BZ Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 omg! i remember winmodems... thats why i couldnt get mandrake on the net. but wasnt it the first distro with graphical install? I do beleive it was the first one, yes And Zraith My fist Linux attempt was Slackware. It took me 2 weeks to figure out how to boot the cd on an old 486. once I finally figured out sbootmgr and burned through a case of flippies, I couldn't have been happier. Now, with Ubuntu and KDE on all our university boxes, I am missing the simple Fluxbox. All in all, it was a bitch to add programs to the system until you got the hang of it. Even then, hardware support at the time sucked, so I ran VESA graphics and through the 10 mb ethernet nic. You can still put Fluxbox on it Quote
Somken Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 First: Knoppix or Knoppix STD. tried both around the same day. Current: CentOS. I'm loving me some RedHat on the cheap. Quote
jholl Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 1st Suse 7 for about a day. wouldn't display anything (booted straight to xwindows with no support for video card... i was too much of a n00b to make it boot to commandline. 2nd Red hat 7 for about a month. 3rd Slackware since v8 (all hail BDFL Volkerding) I probably couldn't name the number of distros i've used over the years looking for the next best thing but in the end i always went back to slack. Quote
Eviltechie Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 For me it was damn small. I think it was supposed to be Ubuntu, but something happnened with it not working on my 10 year old computer. Then I was doing Xubuntu from a flash drive. Finally Ubuntu from a hard drive. As I speek, Ubuntu Server is installing in a VM. Quote
Bit Hunter Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 I think it was RadHat 5.x, back in 2001. Same week installed Redhat 6.1. I think that computer still have the original OutOf The Box version of RedHat 6.1. Currently using Ubuntu... Will be moving soon to either Gentoo or LFS... Quote
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