Redhat 2.1, a cd stuck to a huge book
7.0.90 here, that one had kernel 2.4. Been a minute.
Ubuntu, before Unity came along
Knoppix STD
Klaus would be proud
Ubuntu, it was an on-off-relationship until I finally made it
Mandrake mid 1990s
My people! Their screenshot gallery was the sole reason I got into Linux back when I was in the sixth grade. The skills I learned by using it as my daily driver got me a job at a web hosting company and started a very fulfilling career.
I’ve still got my Mandrake 9.2 CDs somewhere that a friend burned for me. Didn’t dig the rebranding to Mandriva.
Yggdrasil LGX, back in ‘93.
Damn, you got in on like the ground floor haha
It was quite the interesting thing to run back then — it was all very “Wild West” of software, and a LOT of stuff didn’t work well.
It wasn’t my daily driver; it really wasn’t ready for most workloads back then. But it was nearly free, and we shared around the CD-ROM amongst hacker friends interested in giving it a try.
Slackware.
Same. The year was 1997…
Me too, on floppy disks, kernel 2.0.something… I remember I struggled to get X11 running, so I tried with redhat next
Getting X to work required mucking about with a textfile where you specified parameters directing the operation of the electron gun inside a CRT monitor that were so down to the metal, that you could create your own resolution or even blow up your monitor.
Ah, those were the days ;)
Fedora from 2015, to circumvent my school laptop’s OS with it installed on a USB stick.
Red hat on a disc from a for dummies book at the library.
Same here. Red Hat 5 from the Linux for Dummies book.
Slackware 3.5 because my friend thought it’d be funny and didn’t tell me fuck all about distros.
Helped me learn a lot though.
Could you hand me the X floppy?
Open suse and mandrake
Slackware 3.0 in 1996
Then this new promising distro called Debian
Got my own PC, went with Slackware again for some God-forsaken reason
Debian again and that’s where I’ve stayed for most part - I tried using Ubuntu as a desktop laptop distro for a while but at some point I realised I should have installed Debian to begin with so I went with that there too
Linux Mint, until I made a mistake during a version upgrade and aptitude had a memory leak while trying to escape dependency hell and roll every package back. Then I replaced it with arch and am happy to be on a rolling release distro.
Caldera Open Linux 2.(?) back around 98/99, for long enough to download Slackware and Win98SE.
Ubuntu 8.10
I don’t like Ubuntu anymore but I loved it then
