Your 1st Distro.

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BigglesPiP

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How did you find your 1st stab at linux?

I tried Fedora Core 1st, when I was in Uni, and TBH, I was really put off it, but probably just because almost nothing I tried worked. Does anyone else find they don't like their 1st distro?

I should really give it a try again, my favourite distro at work is RHEL.
 
mandrake 5 or something, actually 1st go was with corel Linux but I was clueless(even more than now !) and just ended up with a screwed up harddisc that took me ages to suss out how to fix it.

nowdays i run Ubuntu, CentOS(on and off), fedora and would love to try Gentoo one day.
 
Red Hat 7 was my first (disappointing) foray. I suggest anyone who feels Linux isn't user-friendly these days install Red Hat 7 for a day and then come back with their findings. ;)
 
Red Hat 7 as well. I don't think it was even the current version when I tried and I didn't know any better. :p

My first semi-successful install was Mandrake 9.2, with some Knoppix dabbling in the mean time.

The first install that I actually was able to use for my day-to-day work was Ubuntu 5.10. I've been a fanboy since.
 
I tried Breezy, but I was still too much of a n00b to like it, or get it to work.

It put me off Ubuntu for a long time, starting to get back into it now. I have Xubuntu 8.04 on my work machine, and Xubuntu 9.04 is going on my EEEPC (currently Debian 5), when it GAs.
 
Knoppix back in 2001 I think, I chose it cause it was the only one I knew of at the time that offered a LiveCD.... in fact I've kept the very same CD that I used to use all those years ago. I boot it up every now and again just for ****s and giggles :D

Nowadays, I tend to like the reliability and all-roundedness of Ubuntu (although I actually run Xubuntu). Not sure when I made the switch, but I remember first hearing of Ubuntu when I went to one of the Wiltshire Linux User Group meetings and they were raving about it like mad.
 
My first ever try was TurboLinux and I got absolutely nowhere! :p

The first useable distro I got working was SuSE 8.1 but now I pretty much stick to the Ubuntu/Debian family.
 
Mandrake 2001 Cooker :) (Have never been able to resist tinkering and playing with bleeding edge stuff)
Still hooked on cooker, although sadly Mandriva as it is now is becoming rather bloated.

Server runs on Ubuntu, and I admit I do miss urpmi but I can't afford to have a cooker system fall over on me.

-Leezer-
 
Hmm, it was either Slax or Knoppix. I think it was Knoppix. I can't recall exactly which particular live cd they threw in our general direction at university. :p

Looking back it was probably my favourite first year module!
 
Red Hat 6. It was naff. Also crashed a lot during the install because one of the disks was scratched I think (this was pre-broadband days so I couldn't just re-download it). Took me a good 3 days just to get the f-ing thing installed.
Half my hardware didn't work and it was really slow.
I went back to Windows after a few hours and haven't touched any of the RPM based distros since. I should probably give FC a shot sometime.
 
FreeBSD back in 1998, setting up Apache on an old machine (P160 springs to mind).

Shortly after that, NetBSD, for a firewall. And then a week or so later, tried a Stage 1 Gentoo (or is it Slackware?) install on an ancient piece of hardware. I'd leave it running whilst I was at school, and come back to find it had completed a package or two. After maybe a week or more of installing, and finally getting to a CLI, I didn't use it and ended up formatting :p

Haven't used *BSD or Gentoo since really; now use CentOS for dev/server related stuff, Debian/Ubuntu for my day-to-day PCs.

And Vista on my MBP :o
 
Gentoo in 2005, mate thought it would be funny to introduce me to it by doing an install on my pc one friday night (i had 2 hardrive and a much better set up than he did then as i had amd64 with a 6600gt to his olf athlon xp).

He thought my pc was the shiz and got a similar set up and our mini upgrading wars started. We both used gentoo and windows. I cant use any other linux propperly since, something about portage i just cant get over (and yes arch is really similar but it doesnt seem to make as much sense to me).

Just wish i could get gentoo on my laptop, the ati drivers kill it completally :( (yeah theres probably a messy way about it but i have to do uni at the mo making it a silly idea).

Currently im using open suse/debian to try and not be completally possesed by one distro.... (slack is my other target)
 
I think, technically, the first version of Linux I ever booted was Gnoppix (pretty much a Gnome version of Knoppix) :p

First Linux I ever installed was Fedora Core 1. Using KDE out of choice since I was wanting to run SETI@Home on it at the time. And there was an app I found beforehand called KSetiSpy. I remember trying to update KDE and it braking the entire thing :D

Now I use Ubuntu & Gnome. Mainly because all the support documentation is geared towards Ubuntu & Gnome and not Kubuntu & KDE...
 
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