On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Martyn Drake wrote:
Hi folks,
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?!).
Ermmm, it would have been shortly after getting my first x86 PC, I used to be an Amiga fan and kind of got out of the scene around 95' and after a few years wanted a computer again so got myself one of the new Pentium IIs which had just come out with 64Mb of RAM and a 3d gfx card etc.
Anyhow after deciding that windows was a POS i needed a new OS, and I had heard of linux and always wanted to try unix so proceded and got a nice shiny copy from the linux emporium of Redhat 5.1. So I can't remember exactly when this was either late 97' or early 98' i guess, the kernel back then was 2.0.3* something or other.
Anyhow i used to have a winmodem back then so i couldn't do anything really useful with the machine until i invested in a real modem, by then i think the ALug had started and i made it to the first meeting in suffolk and around this time got my external modem, after that first meeting i was persuaded to use linux as my main desktop... the rest is history i guess ;)