Your distro history?

[mdg]

Windows 3.1 up to XP

 

Linux distros I tried for varying lengths of time before going back to Mdk:

 

Lycoris

Redhat

Suse

Gentoo

Arch

Debian

Libranet

[bvc]

I forgot Gentoo and ZipSlack in win95

[aRTee]

Easylinux (in 98)

Corel Linux (incl WP via wine - which actually could print to all the same printers, it included the full database afaicr)

Mandrake from 6.something, then from 8.0 all versions until 10.0 OE (CE updated)

Inbetween I used/tried RH 8, Mandrake Move and I also use various versions of Knoppix.

 

At work I used RH 7.3 for a short while. Normally on Win2K though, but if I manage to get everything working I will use Mandrake 10.0 OE and hopefully get some colleagues hooked too - maybe build a live-cd for some or so...

Oh, and lots of the HP compute servers running HP-UX will get replaced by Opterons running RHAS in the upcoming months, if everything goes well.

Not that I have anything to do with those except as a user (and critic.. :D )

[roland]

DOS

Win 3.11

Win95

Win98

RedHat 7.0, 7.1

Mandrake 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0

No XP so far and probably never

[polemicz]

Mac

Windows 98, ME, 2000

Mandrake 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0CE

Red Hat 8.0, 9.0

Suse 9.0

Debian Woody, Sid.

Mandrake 9.2 is my main system and is rock solid and 10.0 is on my laptop. I may try Suse 9.1.

[Ghil Vertefeuille]

I first started my computing experience with Norton Commander.

My father tried to get me to Windows 3.11, but I was prefering Norton Commander (didn't like the mouse, prefered the DOS command :P)

then I did Windows 3.11 to play some games, after that it's been Win95. I still prefered Norton Commander at the time lol.

 

then came 98se, after that XP.

 

then I came to know that Linux existed two years ago...that's when I decided I would go with it (but didn't actually tried something until 6 month ago)

then I tried MDK, 8.2,9.0,9.1,9.2. then I tried Debian Sarge, before going to MDK 10.0 CE. after that I got Knoppix, and then SuSE 9.0 download, before returning to 10.0 CE :P

[iphitus]

bvc: you play CMR4 too? kickass game!!!

Im hanging out for Gran TUrismo 4 with the GT force pro sterring wheel, 900 degress of sensetivity, force feedback, gear shift, 300 AU dollars of coolness.

 

Anyway,

SuSE live Eval was my first experience of Linux, except X kept crashing. I for some unknown reason persisted.

Mandrake 8.2

Mandrake 9.0

Mandrake 9.1

LFS

Debian Woody (aka, stable, aka old)

Debian SId (aka unstable aka cool!!)

Mandrake 9.2

Arch 0.6

 

Ive used knoppix occassionally too.

 

iphitus

[aru]

I started with caldera open linux lite, this is my history (divided in the different computers I have/had):

• Main (P200MMX)
  1997-98: Caldera Open Linux Lite 1.0 or 1.1 I dont remember
  1998: REDHAT 5.?
  1999: Mandrake 6.0 (since then untill last year this computer has had mandrake running on it)
  1999-2003: Mandrake from 6.0 to 8.2
  2003-present: Debian Sid. It's my server.
   
  
• i386 16Mhz 8Mb Ram
  2001 or 2002: Several months running a selfmade mixture of microlinux, old redhats and old debians. It was a great xperience
   
  
• Old IBM 166Mhz 256Mb ram
  2001-2002: Slackware 8.1 - 9.0
   
  
• P2 3??MHz
  2002-present: Slackware 8.1 - 9.0; just removed the HD from the old Ibm and put it into this computer
  
• P-IV 2.8GHz
  2003: Mandrake 9.1
  2003-present: Mandrake Cooker
   
  
• P-IV-HT 3.2GHz
  2004: Mandrake 9.1
  Two days ago: Mandrake 10.0 CE
  

Ofcourse during this time I've tested several different distros several times, and maybe I've to add CP/M, MSDOS x.x, MSWINDOWS x.x since 198? till now. That's my distro's history ;)

[Sarissi]

Wasn't sure till I checked, but I have a copy of Redhat 6.1 that came with a book. Never used it.

 

I actually started with Mandrake Linux 7.0 Powerpack Edition.

 

Mandrake:

 

7.0 PE (okay, but not that good)

7.1 PE (better)

7.2 PE (better)

8.0 PE (better)

8.1 PE (better, but still non-working packages)

8.2 PE (FINALLY a fully functional release!!!)

9.0 PE (only the upgrade method worked right)

9.1 PE (nice and stable. rock solid)

10.0 CE (everyone knows the teething problems here. Still much better.)

Mandrake Move (pretty darn good live distro)

 

SuSE:

 

9.0 Pro (don't like NOT being able to mount all of my Windows fat32 partitions)

 

MS-DOS and Windows:

 

2.11.03 (on Tandy 2000 FD) I had 768KB main memory and all of it was available.

3 - 6.2 (on various PC Clones)

Win 3.1 (not 3.11)

Win98 (first Edition) on notebook.

Win98SE

 

Plan on getting:

 

Either Win2K or XP Pro (depends on the 3D CGI software)

Mandrake Linux 10.0 Powerpack Edition (Official)

SuSE 9.1 Pro (want the included 64 bit version)

Have to get Win4lin version 5 (have version 4)

 

I got interest in Linux, back in 1998, though it wasn't until Mandrake 7.0 that I thought it was worth trying. I bought a Powerpack Subscription begining with 8.2 and ending with 9.1. Decided to skip 9.2. Now I will buy a new Powerpack Subscription, beginning with 10.0 The only ones I have downloaded the ISOs for are 10.0 CE and Mandrake Move.

 

Linux became my primary OS, as of Mandrake 8.1

[HJ]

Redhat 7.2 (for like maybe 2 days, just when I wanted to see what linux was like)

Then a year later..

Mandrake 8.1

Mandrake 8.2

Mandrake 9.0

Slackware 8.2

Gentoo (where I'm happy and will prolly stay for a looonnnggg time)

 

I've tinkered with lots of distros, but those are the ones I've stuck with for more than a month.

Edited April 11, 2004 by HJ

[DragonMage]

Start with Slackware.. old version (forgot what version but it's about 2.x). It destroyed my monitor.. so I swore off linux until....

 

RedHat 6.0, which goes to

Mandrake 7.0

 

And the distros I have ever used is....

Slackware, 2.x, then 9.0, then 9.1

RedHat: 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0

Fedora Core 1

Mandrake from 7.0 to 9.2.. Haven't used 10.0 yet, but I will once it goes official.

Debian Woody

 

Various linux livecds, from knoppix, to pclinuxos, to mepis.

[Leo]

Started with DOS something or other

moved to unix (don't know whose) back in college

used windows 3.11 at work then NT and now 2K

at home got my first pc with windows 98 pre installed and got MDK 7.0 off a magazibne but didn't install it (too scared :unsure:)

Built my own pc and realised I couldn't re use my wiin 98 disk so bought MDK 9.0 powerpack which I still use.I tried FreeBSD but never really got on with it then also installed Slackware 9.1 which I prefer currently.

 

I have MDK 10 currentl;y awaiting installation whuich will happen soon.

[roadwarrior]

LOL, I've got you all beat as far as how far back I go with Linux. The first version I ran (briefly, just to see what it was) was a boot floppy with kernel .99 that I found on a Simtel CD (IIRC), probably around 1992. The first version that I bought was Yggdrasil back in about 1993.