on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:35:08AM +0000, Martyn Drake wrote:
Just for a bit of fun (since it's Friday) - what was your very first exposure to Linux and what was your first distribution that you ever installed (and can you remember the kernel version?!).
I am bad with dates. The first real linux distribution I ran was redhat 5.2 (I think, in 1998), although I had played with slack 3.4 or so before. It used linux 2.0.36, I think. I decided to switch to Linux after seeing some pretty screenshots in a magazine (pcw), and also having a lot of source code that only worked under a unixy os. And also getting fed up with win16api, win32api, mfc and so on. MS VC++ 1.0 was very unstable and confusing and Symantec C++ 7.2 wasn't much better.
I found redhat a real pain, and so was more than happy to switch to slackware 7.0 (in 1999) when I upgraded my main machine from a p100 with 8 megs of ram to a pII 350 with 64megs of ram. Now I only have 1 Linux box (running a very patched and modified slack 7.0) out of around 12 boxes. Most machines run NetBSD.