Your First Distro?

[bfc]

Redhat 4.0 was my first distro.

[Adam N]

My first distro was Ubuntu 7.04 feisty Fawn. I had know Idea what Linux was , nor had I heard of it. This sounds corny, but it actually changed my life.

I was a salesman when I found Linux, but it got me interested.I started learning everything I could about it (which I'm not even close to finishing).

I lost my job when the recession hit. Rather than going out, and finding another sales job, I started college to became a networking security specialist. I don't think any of this would have happened. If I hadn't stumbled upon Ubuntu's website.

Congratulations

My first linux distro was ubuntu 8.10. I bought a netbok that said it had linux, it turned out to be eeebuntu which i hated so i got a linux iso which turned out to be for ubuntu and her i am now.

[WorfSOM]

Slax.

I needed a way to access some files from a corrupt copy of Windows XP, and i heard about a small distro that could be used as a live cd to accomplish this.

[juancarlospaco]

Ubuntu, i don't remember release.

[lonniehenry]

Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger. Unbeleivably unstable but fun to play with. I have kept a test partition for the newest development version ever since. Haven't had windows for a couple of years.

[Warren Watts]

Fedora Core 4

In early 2005 I cobbled together a bunch of old hardware to build a basic server running FC4. I downloaded the four (yes, four!) ISOs and made about six coasters before I figured out how to burn an ISO. LOL

Fedora actually made the install pretty easy, although the installer asked a zillion questions that as a Linux newbie I had no idea how to answer.

The only hard drives I had available were two old 4 GB drives, and the Fedora installer let me combine them using LVM into one single logical drive. If I had had a better understanding (or for that matter, any understanding at all) of linux directory structure, I would have just split the directories between the two drives and avoided using LVM.

I grew to absolutely hate Fedora's package manager, and struggled with dependencies every single time I tried to install something new. Eventually one of the two drives failed on my logical volume, borking the whole setup, and I shelved the whole project.

It wasn't until two years later when I discovered Ubuntu 7.04 that I really become serious about using linux on a day-to-day basis.

[favadi]

Redhat 9.

[Shpongle]

fedora 6 , i used it for a while but i got board of it (and wasnt really sure what i was doing for the most part) and went back to windows, then then i tried intripid and have been here since!

[szymon_g]

The first distro, i ever used was a PLD /Polish(ed) Linux Distribution/ with WindowMaker - friend of mine, who worked in internet cafe, let me used it. i've been sniffing girls' chats it was in 2001 or 2002.
but, Red Hat Linux 7.2 was the first distro i've installed on my box (celeron 333mhz, 64 ram, hdd 10gb, s3trio/3d with 4 mb of memory) - with kde 2.x.x. (I think). Later came Mandrake 9.0, than I've small break with linux until Ubuntu 6.06

[The Toxic Mite]

Xandros, it was crap.