[TriLUG] Your personal Linux Distro History (was Re: FEDORA 7 LINUX First Impressions? (was: F7 First Impressions?))

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 6/1/07, Jason Faulkner <jason at oldos.org> wrote:
> Oooh. It's not FC anymore, is it? I can't believe it's up to 7. My
> first distro was RHL 7.3 -- and I used RHL/FC all the way through FC2.

Wow.  RHL 7.3  You're really young. :-P

My first distro was Slackware in early 1994.  Back when it was distributed
on lots and lots of 3.5 inch floppies.  From there I flirted briefly
with Yggdrasil
before moving to Red Hat.  In 1998 I switched from Red Hat to Mandrake 5.1
(it started at 5.1 since it mirrored the Red Hat version at the time because it
started as Red Hat + KDE).  I used Mandrake through 10.2 and then switched
to Kubuntu with Hoary Hedgehog on the desktop and Debian Sarge on servers,
which is where I stand today (latest versions of both of those).

In between there, I helped create two Linux distributions for my work at Oculan
back when it was alive: One was called Onix and it was basically a version
of Red Hat 7.3(?) that would run from a 128MB flash card and I'm not sure the
other one actually had a name but it fit in 8MB of flash and was based on
uClibc.

These days I'm much more likely to be using OS X on my laptop (and trying
to bring native KDE to that).

How about others?  What's your personal linux distro history?

Cheers,
Tanner
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