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Everyone remembers their first Linux distro?What was yours? 🐧 
Debian / Ubuntu
61.4%
Fedora / Red Hat
13%
Arch Linux
1.1%
Somethings else? Comment below!
24.5%
Poll ended at .
Mar 9 at 3:08pmWeb
Show threadkontrollierterWahnwitzMar 9

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We folks at Mastodon are old.

Add something like Corel Linux, Madrake, Slackware and SuSE to the list.

My first working Linux installation was something like a SuSE 7.3

Show threadAprazethMar 9

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SuSE for me as well. Got it partially working (exotic video card and monitor and I was in way over my head) but still fondly remember it :)

Show threadFelix WinterMar 9

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Exactly. In my case it was Mandrake. I don't remember the exact release. Bought a cardboard box containing several CDs in a book shop sometime in 2002 if I remember correctly.

Show threadDeadTOm Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice Suse 6.something
Show threadGytis RepečkaMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Mandrake 
Show threadMacumba MacacaMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Slackware of course
Show threadfacebitaMar 9
@CollaboraOffice 1998 SuSE Linux auf einem iMac G3 Bondi Blue.
Show threadEugen NeuberMar 9
@CollaboraOffice #slackware since then #openSUSE
Show threadsqrt(-1)Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice Slackware :D
Show threadjjjMar 9
@CollaboraOffice I actually don't remember.
Show threadSe'eSMar 9
@CollaboraOffice I started with Yggdrasil. Not sure what version exactly but it wasn’t even a version 1.0 yet.
Show threadAmselbockMar 9
@CollaboraOffice SUSE!
Show thread Leo 🇲🇽Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice SuSE 7.1
Show threadJeppeMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Redhat 5.2 back in the very old days :) I usually don't _feel_ old, buth then I remember when that came out :D It was my very first experience with computers for real, as well. We had just gotten a PC at home, and I saw a news story in the TV about a new open OS called Linux. Got a computer magazine with an install CD. Was great to figure it all out on my own. So much fun.
Show threadkarlggestMar 9
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Red Hat 5.2, Mandrake 6.0, Debian Potato, openSUSE.
Show threadÁngel Goitia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice Slackware. I'm old!
Show threadO Coegho  ꩜Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice Mandriva
Show threadJacobo Da Riva MuñozMar 9
@CollaboraOffice SuSE 6.0
Show threadSalvaMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Slackware and Eurielec Linux.
Show threadMonMar 9
@salva_pl @CollaboraOffice ☝
Show threadclimbertobbyMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Suse
Show threadManu M 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Mar 9

@CollaboraOffice gnuLinEx! Public funded Linux distro based on Debian. Circa 2004. It was used on every computer in the Extremadura school district.

The story of this distro is quite interesting, may I add.

I played a lot with some Knoppix live CDs on my family computer I wasn’t allowed to manipulate, only use. I got an old tower and installed Guadalinex Mini (similar project to gnuLinEx, tailored for old computers -for the age, I think that CPU was something like Pentium II with 64Mb of RAM).

Later, when I got my first laptop, I went for Ubuntu. 7.04. Then hopped a lot between DE, but never left the Ubuntu environment. Now I’m running a Debian.

Show threadCelia ValdeolmillosMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Slackware. Like, ages ago, after startin to use Unix system V at University. In the nineties last century. Later had to use windows, but the went back time ago with Elementary and now Ubuntu for stability and professional use.
Show threadz3r0Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice Mandrake, but I couldn't do anything with it because I wasn't able to compile the drivers for my USB ADSL modem
Show threadJavier 🖖🏃‍♂️🌻🍉🟥🟨🟪Mar 9
@CollaboraOffice SuSE 7.2
Show threadeaplMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Corel Linux that came in a PC Magazine CD, and before Slackware (?) that came in an introductory Book with floppies
Show threadeaplMar 9
@CollaboraOffice it should have been be this one
https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine_espaniol-corel_linux_10
PC Magazine en Español: Corel Linux 1.0 covermount CD : Corel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A dump of this covermount CD containing Corel Linux 1.0. The .iso image was dumped three times; two times with ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 (endorsed by The Hidden...

Internet Archive
Show threadOhne HaareMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Suse
Show threadDavid NicolasMar 9
@CollaboraOffice too much modern distros !
Show threadellgonMar 9
@CollaboraOffice SUSE Linux, a friend bought a SUSE box on a mall around year 2000 and we installed it on our computers
Show threadLaconada BlogMar 9

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Slackware

Show threadjorgeMar 9
@CollaboraOffice mandrake
Show threadBr4veTr4velerMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Suse Linux 7
Show threadStoneWalkerMar 9
@CollaboraOffice knoppix, from a live cd that comes with a magazine 😀
Show threadcornilMar 9
@CollaboraOffice Mandrake
Show threadCurioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)Mar 9

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Before Ubuntu, everything else was trying it out, hating it, never coming back.

Corel Linux was not bad, but not enough.

Show threadBjörnMar 10

@CollaboraOffice SuSE and Knoppix (in the early 2000s)

A few years later, I switched to Linux permanently on one of my devices. But it was Ubuntu that I ended up using for several years.

Show threadFredmanMar 10
@CollaboraOffice Slackware, the most stable and complete distro in 1993 . I bought the CDs in EEUU
Show threadUlrichMar 11
@CollaboraOffice Slackware
Show threadJavierinsituMar 13
@CollaboraOffice mandrake linux