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

[Kevin Flanagan]

I first installed Slackware 0.something, like Tanner I had a sizable stack
of floppies.  Installing on a 486 laptop was no joy, I even got X working,
another significant feat.  I've not been a full time Linux admin, but
continue to use it for my primary home system since I made the jump about 7
years ago.  FC3,4,5,6 some Aurora for that SPARC ultra1 in the closet now.
I currently use kubuntu on most systems, at home, but RHEL 4 at work. We
started with SLES 8, but it just didn't work out with the apps we were
looking for.

Kevin

On 6/1/07, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> First time I was involved with Linux of any sort, my "boss" gave me an
> RHL 5.1 CD and said "Take those 4 servers (pointing to corner of room)
> and build a cluster". Took me a month to figure out how to get the
> stupid thing installed. After that, I was hooked (was a Windows and
> Solaris admin at the time).
>
> From there, RH 6.x -> 7.x -> 9 and Debian stable-> FC1, Debian, and
> Slackware -> FC3 -> FC5 -> FC6...Somewhere in there, RHEL 2.x, 3.x, 4.x,
> and Suse 8.x, and 9.x for work stuff
>
> I current run Debian Stable (older laptops), Aurora (FC based for
> Sparc), CentOS (Servers), FC6 (devel station @work), FC5 (music studio
> PC), PHLAK on CD(for network testing), Knoppix on CD (for repairs), RUNT
> on my USB key (network testing), and a rolled-my-own FC based LiveCD for
> the kids.
>
> Jason Faulkner wrote:
> > 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
> >> --
> >> Tanner Lovelace
> >> clubjuggler at gmail dot com
> >> http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
> >> (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an
> >> increscent, all sable.
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