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

[J.C. Jones]

My Linux history --
1. I downloaded slackware from sunsite.edu to floppies over a dialup 
connection and installed it to a very slow pc with limited memory. It 
was so slow that I almost gave up on linux. Not enough memory for X, all 
command line for me at the time.
2. Next was Redhat 6.? followed by  Redhat 7.2 and finally redhat 9. I 
even installed RH9 to my wife's desktop pc. She has used it until 
recently when I installed Ubuntu 6.06.
3. Now I have two servers running FC5, one laptop running FC5 and Mepis, 
and one other desktop running Ubuntu 6.06

jcj

Jason Faulkner wrote:

>Hrm... full history?
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>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:
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>>On 6/1/07, Jason Faulkner <jason at oldos.org> wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Wow.  RHL 7.3  You're really young. :-P
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>>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).
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>>How about others?  What's your personal linux distro history?
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>>Cheers,
>>Tanner
>>--
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>>clubjuggler at gmail dot com
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