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

[Jason Faulkner]

Hrm... full history?

RHL 7.3 --> RHL 8 --> SuSe (8? not sure) --> RHL 9 --> Debian Woody (I
broked my windows install with this one) --> FC1 --> FC2 --> Gentoo
--> Debian Testng (sarge) --> Ubuntu

Nowdays, I use either Gentoo, Debian, or Ubuntu.

On 6/1/07, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Jason Faulkner
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