Which Version Of Ubuntu Was Your First?

[GamingMazter]

My first ever try of Ubuntu was 7.10 (very recently). Which was yours?

[Chilli Bob]

Dapper

[shad0w_walker]

5.04 if memory serves.

[jpittack]

7.04, but I started so close to 7.10, I wasn't in it long enough to even really learn how to find my way around yet.

[sawjew]

Hoary Hedgehog, and things have definitely improved since then.

[FuturePilot]

Dapper 6.06

[graabein]

Hoary Hedgehog. It's come a long way since then so people just be patient. Good things are happening.



Edit: Well maybe it was Warty Warthog? Can't remember. It don't really matter.

[Infinity-al]

Feisty :)

[mips]

4.10 Warty Warthog

[Warpnow]

A beta of 5.04 was my first but I didn't start using it full time until 6 for a few months, and then when 7.04 came out I tried it again and fell in love.

[NilsHG]

If i remember correctly i tried 6.xsomething. and went back to windows. 7.04 was the first dual boot on my notebook and i love it since.
now there is no more dual boot on the notebook, it is gutsy only and the desktop dualboots gutsy 64bit and vista 64bit :(

[helliewm]

6.06 Dapper.

[NovaAesa]

Been here since the days of Fiesty Fawn 7.04

[nebu]

old warty warthog.....

[hellion0]

I started on Edgy, because I was having all kinds of problems trying to make Feisty work on the old laptop.

[Kevbert]

Gutsy 7.10 32 bit on an AMD X64.

[bomanizer]

Hoary.

[Jad]

Warty ;)

[Lord Illidan]

Hoary Hedgehog. I'd been using mainly SUSE and Fedora before.

I remember reading about Ubuntu's "pornographic" wallpaper in LXF though..and thinking..what a big ado about nothing :D

[PartisanEntity]

Dapper for me. Trying to get my broadcom wifi card to work was a long and painful process that took me weeks and several reinstalls. Since then it's been nothing but peace, joy and stability.

[r4ik]

5.10 Breezy ? Still have the red install cd.

[N9NJA]

7.04 Feisty Fawn!

[bufsabre666]

ah good old warty, the most user friendly linux ive used at that time, doesnt even hold a candle of ease to most distros now, but i still miss it

[Kimm]

4.10 Warty Warthog :)

[urukrama]

Breezy.

[Incense]

4.10. I kept reading about this "Ubuntu" distro with the naked people that was causing a stir, and I had to check it out for myself. I remember how exciting it was that it was only a one disc install. That was very rare at the time.

[Meyithi]

Feisty - was a Gentoo man until the dev war. Always have a super minimal windows installation for games tho.

[gn2]

Ubuntu 5.10, CD from Shipit, separate Live and Install CD's was a good idea.

[sanderella]

Breezy Badger:KS

[RudolfMDLT]

5.10 Breezy ? Still have the red install cd.

Me too - They where giving them away for free at a convention.

[GavinZac]

Edgy, but it updated to Fiesty a few days later.

[frodon]

It was hoary hedgehog for me :)

[sageb1]

5.10 which can install on about 64 MB of RAM on eMachines that can't upgrade past Win98 with a 10GB HD.

[anandanbu]

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

that was my first ever Linux distribution :)

[xpod]

6.06.....Dapper Drake.

Stumbled across the Ubuntu site one day,a few months after first sitting down in front of a PC and thought......."i`ll have some of that":)

And like when you buy a new car and you start seeing the same car everywhere i cant go anywhere now without seeing penguins it seems:???:
Not Tux as such,just penguins.

Their everywhere:)

[hakimaki]

Edgy when it first came out, Must of been late 2006 I think. My return to linux after first trying it many years before. Great improvements have been made in the past couple of years. and I never looked back.

[beercz]

4.10 Warty Warthog
+1

[LitusMayol]

7.04 newbie! ;)

[dgray_from_dc]

5.04 Hoary Hedgehog

[steeleyuk]

Started to use Edgy just a couple of days after it came out.

[floydpink7]

6.06.....Dapper Drake

Got it in a DVD book/guide "Moving to Ubuntu linux".... it was actually a present for my dad .....

[nowshining]

7.04 - was my first install of ubuntu :)

[wipeout140]

Started to use 6.10 Edgy on 29th December 2006

[Gigamo]

Feisty. However I never really used it intensively. Only since gutsy Ubuntu became my main OS.

[angelsguitar]

Ubuntu 7.04. Now using 7.10 Ubuntu Studio.

[DrOlaf]

Breezy, 64-bit version. Boy I learned a lot wrangling with that on my laptop :)

[Arwen]

5.10,I'll never forget the blackout during partitioning,I'm thankful though that my hd survived and has now 7.04 installed :-)

[hard_i]

4.10

[notwen]

Dapper, didn't go much past the LiveCD until Edgy though.

[miggols99]

Edgy Eft 6.10. A few months after though Feisty Fawn was released.

[markp1989]

i think it was 6.06, but i didnt stick with it for long, cant remember why, think it may of been due to graphics card driver problems, but im not 100% sure

[mali2297]

Breezy Badger

[insane_alien]

5.10 the badger of breeziness.

[SunnyRabbiera]

warty... man did that suck.
Dapper was the first ubuntu that worked for me.

[zvacet]

Breezy.

[ukripper]

6.06 Lts

[forrestcupp]

I came on right when Hoary Hedgehog was released. I remember people talking about how is was so much better than Warty Warthog.

[Raval]

5.04 if memory serves.

What he said:lolflag:

[dashnak]

Been around since warty...

[amazingtaters]

Fiesty for me

[arsenic23]

Breezy

[Christmas]

Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger. I remember that I didn't like it that much because the mouse pointer was moving in frames when the system was under heavy load.

[ukripper]

Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger. I remember that I didn't like it that much because the mouse pointer was moving in frames when the system was under heavy load.

Fedora and redhat ruled at that time!

[bobbocanfly]

Dapper but only stuck with it for a few weeks. Only really started using it full time with Feisty (had Edgy on for a day before i had to dist-upgrade)

[PriceChild]

I thought a poll might be fun!

Hoary was my first, but I quickly moved to the Breezy RC.

[derekr44]

5.04 was my first. But I didn't completely switch until 7.04.

[natille]

Feisty for me, but it was super close to Gutsy and many problems led me to start anew when Gutsy came out. Come to mention it, I've still got some issues, but I've not had the time recently to sit down and work on them.

[Jinarion]

Dapper 6.06, didn't use it long, no support for wireless something fixed in 7.10 thankfully

[Bubba64]

Started with Dapper on an computer from nonprofit recyclers in my town this was the program on all refurbished computers sold then to Feisty to Gutsy all through update manager.

[Shazaam]

Dapper. Found out about it from another poster at that infamous site ran by Philip Kaplan. :)
Forums long gone now.

[kaens]

4.10 - it was the second linux distribution that I attempted to install (and the first one that installed without a glitch!)

[dyous87]

4.10 Warty for me. Wow how far Ubuntu has come since then.

[Bruce M.]

I started with Ubuntu Dapper Drake - 6.06 in late July 2007.

W2K died on me once too often and I told myself that's it. Went to a CyberCafe here that burns CD/DVD's and downloaded Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Live CD in no time flat.

Before I got too much into it, I decided, "I really like this Ubuntu! OK, I'll give Ubuntu the same time I gave Windows, about 20 years." Only have 19 years and four months to go, if I live that long. :)

Within a week I used the "Update Manager" to get Ubuntu Edgy Eft - 6.10. It only took a bit more than 14 hours one night with my slow connection (128K). The very next night I did the same thing and got Feisty Fawn 7.04. Now that I liked so much the next two nights in a row I downloaded the ISO's for the Live and Alt CD's.

Then I read that it's best to do a clean install as the "Update Manager" might not work. Guess I was just lucky. :)

Recently I grabbed the ISO's for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10, connection speeds increased to 640K now, so it only took me 10 hours to get both the Live and Alt CD ISO's.

Ubuntu 7.10 was slow here (see my sig) so I spent a day and got Xubuntu 7.10 (Live and Alt CD's)

And here I sit, waiting for Xubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS and three years of a stable system. Probably do that sometime in July to celebrate my one year with Ubuntu.

Have a great day
Bruce

[merlinDwizzard]

Feisty Fawn

[SunnyRabbiera]

Breezy, I hated it...
Dapper was a better experience

[bruce89]

Warty for about 2 days (replaced by Hoary in its beta stage as I needed it for the modem to work).

[Bruce M.]

Me too - They where giving them away for free at a convention.

Love your sig:


My philosophy in life: If it's not broken, tweak it 'till it breaks.

A friend of mine always used a Tagline in QWK mails (the old BBS stuff) that read:


If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

So now I see a modification:


If it ain't broke, don't fix it, tweak it 'til it is!

Yea, I like that. :)
Bruce

[ugm6hr]

This is actually a really interesting poll.

Assuming that people who have participated in the poll (55 so far) represent the current Ubuntu user base (which is not an unreasonable assumption, although I suspect that longer term users may be more likely to frequent these forums), then this is surprising.

I thought that the rate of take-up of Ubuntu was increasing...

But according to this poll, the largest proportion of current users started with 6.06, with numbers of new users drawn by the newer versions getting smaller rather than larger.

Hmmmm....

Maybe the next LTS final release will get a sizeable new draft?

[lyceum]

My first was 5.10 for Kubuntu, switched to Ubuntu at 6.06. Took MS off my box at 6.10.

[bruce89]

But according to this poll, the largest proportion of current users started with 6.06, with numbers of new users drawn by the newer versions getting smaller rather than larger.

Hmmmm....

Maybe the next LTS final release will get a sizeable new draft?

I suspect a disproportiate number of people use the LTS for some reason. Polls of what people currently use would also suggest this.

[Bruce M.]

But according to this poll, the largest proportion of current users started with 6.06, with numbers of new users drawn by the newer versions getting smaller rather than larger.

Hmmmm....

Maybe the next LTS final release will get a sizeable new draft?

If you think about it. Maybe the newer users aren't reading the forums as much as they are busy asking questions and getting answers. Once they settle in with their new OS and feel more comfortable and start reading things it'll pick up.

I never discovered the Community Cafe for the longest time, too busy getting things "just right". :)

[pbpersson]

My first version was Feisty Fawn

When I first joined this party I thought the names were crazy but now I like them. They stick in my memory much better than the numbers. :)

[jcwmoore]

7.04, but I started so close to 7.10, I wasn't in it long enough to even really learn how to find my way around yet.

I'm in the same boat, but starting with edgy and 2 weeks later the new version was ready.

[hessiess]

fawn, still using it now

[CaptainCabinet]

My first was Ubuntu 7.10 someyime late last year. A late adopter. :)

[myusername]

my first ubuntu was dapper version 1 right when it came out but my first experience with linux oddly enough was on my ipod nano then i discovered knoppix then went to ubuntu

[jeremy]

I chose Warty Warthog, but in fact it was one of the betas in August 2004 if my memory serves me well.

[yabbadabbadont]

Warty Warthog, but Dapper was the first one that I used for more than a month.

[Linuxratty]

Feisty :)

Feisty Fawn.

[Mustard]

Hoary Hedgehog then on to Dapper Drake LTS. A long time with Dapper, followed by a recent install of Gutsy. Gutsy was too cool to resist not upgrading.

[rudihawk]

6.06 Dapper...

[disturbed1]

Warty beta.

There was big talk about Ubuntu after Slackware dropped Gnome.

[kagashe]

Hoary Hedgehog - 5.04, and joined this forum.

kagashe

[linux phreak]

Fiesty fawn.It was the best and i love it .Its better than gutsy gibbon in my system.

[Radon]

It's amazing how far Ubuntu has gone in just 7 releases, isn't it?

I began using 5.04 but switched to Ubuntu full time on my laptop with 6.06. My desktop is still openSUSE with KDE4 since Ubuntu doesn't set up RAID 0 automatically/automagically like o'Suzanna does.

[vishzilla]

6.06, didn't use it much!
7.04 onwards Ubuntu became my primary OS

[Vince4Amy]

5.10 though I started using it mainly at 6.06.

[cj2003]

Warty....and then I stayed away for a long time! But now I'm back.

[clanky]

Gutsy 7.10 is my first try with Ubunu (or Linux at all)

Has there been huge differences between each release or has it been a steady progress?

[Radon]

Has there been huge differences between each release or has it been a steady progress?
Each release has an updated kernel which naturally provide better support for hardware, but Ubuntu is a mish mash of different software from many different sources, including code from corporations like Apple, Redhat and Novell. Software generally gets better as it matures.

/So I don't get flamed, here are examples from the named companies: CUPS (http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/12/1342258&from=rss); codec finder; (mono-based) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Software_developed_with_Mono) f-spot, beagle, banshee, tomboy, gnome do, evolution, compiz fusion

[eragon100]

Ubuntu ultimate 1.4 gamers edition :)

Now it's default Gutsy (and that's it on my harddrive)

[zachtib]

My first experience with Ubuntu was with warty (4.10), but I didn't start using it regularly until breezy was in RC stages

[Depressed Man]

Feisty Fawn, ah yes.. the memories of trying to get Beryl to work on my desktop with an ATI card.

[Wiifreak]

It was my first contact with Linux: Kubuntu 6.04.
It was free included with a Linux magazine.

Bless the free Distro CD's!

[O3.]

Feisty Fawn 7.04

[-Phi-]

5.04, three computers ago.

- Phi

[LittleLORDevil]

I recently was going through a pile of old CD-R's that were already used and found my 6.06 disc from back in the day.

[LookTJ]

My first distro was Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06

[SomeGuyDude]

I tried Feisty, hated it, scrapped it. Kept Kubuntu Feisty for a little while, but it wasn't until Gutsy that everything clicked on my machine.

[torry_loon]

Breezy@work and Dapper@home

[wthanna]

Warty (4.10), then flirted with Fedora (FC3 or FC4) I think it was back then.. then loaded Hoary (5.04) and have been using Ubuntu ever since... still occasionally playing with another distro or two.. usually in a virtual machine... but primary distro is Ubuntu

[keithpeter]

I started with the Hedgehog, but I really only got interested with 6.06 LTS. I'm looking forward to the next LTS

[beow]

Hedgehog. Before that i was running Debian with IceWM, so Ubuntu became something of a revelation. IceWM was nice, but the hedgehog was so well put together. Been hooked ever since...

[Bungo Pony]

Edgy - last year. Those were NOT good days. "Hey, my sound doesn't work. Neat!"

I pretty much used Windows until Feisty came out. That's when everything worked well and I was using Win and Ubuntu equally. And Feisty is what Gutsy broke. I'm kinda stuck on Gutsy right now, and I'm looking forward to Hardy, hoping it will be a good release.

If not, I may move to PCLOS.

[drascus]

When 6.06 came out Cnet did a report on it that tipped me off to ubuntu's existence. before that I was a dedicated Windows user. After running it for the first time from the live CD I was hooked. I spent about a week figuring out how to get everything running and I have been hooked ever since.

[elamericano]

5.10 for me. I think I picked a good time, because everything worked great on my T42. I remember I kept my laptop multi-boot with Windows and Mandrake, but by 6.06, I realized I didn't use those for anything anymore.

[init1]

I downloaded and burnt (incorrectly) the Dapper CD but Edgy was the first release I actually used. Can't wait until Hardy :D

[Kingsley]

6.06 was my first install, but I messed around with the 5.04 LiveCD for a while.

[OrangeCrate]

Hoary

[k33bz]

I had gotten the Breezy Badger live cd, tried it out, wasnt to intrested in it at the time, gotten Dapper Drake, installed it, and been here ever since

[tuxerman]

I had always been a KDE-fan right from the days I started using Linux, from Mandrake 9.1... so it was Kubuntu Dapper I tried out first.
Then I had a short stint with openSUSE, and finally switched back to Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, and lovin' it! :guitar:

[keiichidono]

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron was my first. :D

[BGFG]

Hardy Heron , and never looking back! ext4 here we come :)

[kriukov]

6.06 and I was using it until a month ago when I switched to 8.04.

[Traumadog]

6.06 Dapper Drake..... Still using it! :)

[Corfy]

My first version was Breezy. However, if I had been a little braver, it would have been Warty.

I started looking at Linux distros in Feb. 2005. In my research, I saw a lot of good things written about Ubuntu, but I was concerned about the fact that, by that point, it only had one release. Since this was my first time trying Linux, I didn't want to go with something that would disappear without warning.

So my first distro was Debian 3.1 (then "unstable"). Getting it installed on my system was a fiasco that took two weeks, but then I loved it. However, the install problems eventually led me to look elsewhere for another distro... one I could recommend to others. That search led me to Ubuntu, and I have been there ever since.

[TheSlipstream]

Edgy. I had it on a live disk, but didn't actually install until Hardy.

[jimrz]

Hoary on live cd for a while but first installed version was Breezy

[beercz]

Warty

[tom66]

7.04, loved the Live CD. But that's as far as I went.
I then switched to 7.10, loved it, stuck with it. Now on 8.04. :D

[insane_alien]

5.10, man, was it really that long ago i first encountered that breezy badger? seems like only last week.

[Dr Small]

6.06; Dapper Drake

[Joeb454]

I put 5.04 because that's when I first found it. Never got round to installing it (it would work :() But I followed development and got round to installing it on my main production machine 2 years later with Fiesty :)

[Eclipse.]

6.10 a week later 7.04 was released and I upgraded.:)

[cybrsaylr]

Feisty Fawn 7.04 around a year ago.

[Jim!]

Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), Worked Well, 8.04 works even better!

[texasjim]

Dapper, and I never looked back.\\:D/

[Vakman]

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was the first I used but I quickly switched to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10.

[doorknob60]

Feisty, started about a month before Gusty came out :)

[crhylove]

Feisty was great. I played with beryl, had a grand time. Had nothing but problems with Gutsy, but now Hardy is the best OS I've ever used.

WELL DONE!

[DougieFresh4U]

Breezy. Ubuntu has made GREAT progress since then. Kudos to developers :)

[Sef]

4.10 Warty Warthog

[Scruffynerf]

First was a spinoff project based on Edgy (the group now calling the distro the "Ultimate Edition". They are active here on these forums as well.

[Zeotronic]

I first tried Ubuntu (Xubuntu more specifically) on Edgy, and I was blown away, it was everything I was hoping I could find in Linux (at the time I was quite new to Linux). Then I was subsequently blown away by Feisty's improved Xfce, and have been more or less neutral on the developments ever since.

[Der Alte]

5.10, I got caught up in the hype a few days before the 6.06 release.

[nick09]

Hardy Heron 8.04. I just came in time too, around 1-2 days of the release.

[PH James]

Breezy Badger I believe. Though I had been following it since Warty.:KS

[Jackster]

I think the first version I tried was 5.04 and when 5.10 was out that was when I moved to Linux full time.

[nerd0795]

When I installed Ubuntu, 8.04 Hardy Heron was my first.

[robotman5]

my first ubuntu was welll Hardy Heron 8.04!:guitar:

[FloridaBSD]

I first strasted using Ubuntu in 2005 because I was growing annoyed with mircosofts inabilty to maintain a "desirable Operating System and " hugr lack of ethical business practices"" for mor infromation onm my true fealins pleas refer to the following link link

Loving Ubuntu after 15 years of waste in windows (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/loving-ubuntu-after-15-years-of-waste-in-windows-660052/)

To find Ou my true feeling about certain versions f windows and get my take on the pro and cons of both Linux and Windows.


I have also run several servers for my family using Ubuntu 6.10 -07.05 LTS editions and had now problems what so ever.


Started out wit an old i386 and a burned copy of 5.10 Breezy Badger.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

The oldest CD I could find was Edgy Elf.

I got Edgy Elf to work. I think I had tried Dapper Drake on an older computer but couldn't get it to work.

After getting Edgy Elf working, my wife moved my computer so I had to use the wireless network. I could only get Edgy Elf to work with WEP wireless encryption. I will not use anything less that WPA so WEP was out of the question. Linux taught me so much about the myth of security, as I knew it, from my Windows background :-#. I drug a 25 ft. Ethernet cable across the room whenever I wanted to use Ubuntu. I think it was Feisty Fawn or Gutsy Gibbon that I finally got working with WPA on my network.

[AlphaMack]

Breezy.

[Angry penguin]

warty. We have come a long way since then.

[andrek]

6.06 - Dapper Drake

[Canis familiaris]

Dapper

[lordhaworth]

Gutsy for me, for about a day! Then straight on to hardy and not looked back since

[TheMaxzilla]

I got 7.10 three days after it was released. It took a few tries to get it installed, but it worked like a charm after!

[unisol]

my first ubuntu was warty.now i use 7.10.

[Mr.Auer]

Mine was Hoary Hedgehog, the second release.
I had just become very fed up with my bought XP, and on a biking forum someone suggested trying Ubuntu. It worked pretty well, and I liked it so much that I hacked the XP cd to pieces the next day :p I mean, I really did..And I had paid 120 euros for that..

Now I run Hardy on my two desktops, Gutsy on one old Thinkpad, and Hardy Ubuntu-eee on my Eee pc.

Looking back, Im amazed how much everything has improved with Ubuntu. Good job.

[super.rad]

First for me was Dapper Drake, and after much distro hopping I have always come back to ubuntu. Currently using Intrepid testing

[FatAngus]

Dapper Drake was mine

[wolfen69]

warty warthog 4.10

[SoulRyuu]

Just voted Fiesty, That was the first time i decided that M$ was controlling to much of my life and that I took the time to build my own pc, it was all my own .. the last thing i needed was to feel my O/S ran me rather then te other way around, I've not looked back since.

[jimi_hendrix]

Hardy was mine...i just got a new computer and my friend was just getting into linux...when i heard it was free and looked awesome i thought why not...i have a huge hard drive anyway...

my friend wanted me to use PCLinuxOS but i wanted to shop around a little

ubuntu, PCLinux, and Nimblix were the only ones that worked off the live CD but i couldn't get wifi on any of them so i started posting on forums and this was the one i got the first response with so i installed it and i love it

also, the installation guide for dual booting used Hardy 8.10 so that helped me make my choice

[kittywittys]

Hardy Heron...I have only had it for like a week......my boyfriend, Kano(username on forums) got me started on it. I had vista and he talked me into getting ubuntu. I am happy with it....i dont miss vista at all.

[ArtF10]

Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn.....that's 7.04. What a great distribution!

[bsharp]

Edgy 6.10, although I used dapper on my server at the time (after edgy had already come out)

[kk0sse54]

Used 7.10 Gutsy in VM under Windows and my first linux install was of 8.04 Hardy Beta.