First Linux Experience

[Josh Coffman]

Back in 96-97-ish, I tried to dual boot one of the big
early distros. I think it was Slack or Mandrake or
something along those lines.

I couldn't get xorg running, had no idea what I was
doing, and had noone to help me. So I gave up.

The frustration added up over the last few years, so
last June/July I decided to try out linux again.

I read a lot.

I tried a lot; both live cd and installed many
distros.
I think I even posted my list of distro opinions here
sometime last year.

The result was that Fedora was right for me. A good
amount of 'cutting-edge' stuff mixed with enough
dependability; and a good community support. (Before I
found PLUG.)

I love playing with computers, and linux gives me
power to screw things up in many more ways. :)

Now to just get my workstation setup with Fedora. In
the meantime, my laptop is happily running FC5.

--- "Wagner, Steven G" <digital9ja at cox.net> wrote:

> With Betty posting about RH9 I got thinking about my
> first experience with
> Linux. RH6.2 (Cartman) on a dual boot Pentium Pro
> 233MZ with Winbloze '98.
> feh, last time I paid M$ for anything!
> 
> Anyway, I'd be interested to hear about other
> member's first experiences
> with Linux and what you're using today. I'm now
> running OPENSUSE 10.1 on
> laptop and desktop (though desktop will be reverting
> back to hardened Gentoo
> as soon as I get some free time).
> 
> Viva Linus!
> 
> Long Live LAMP!
> 
> www.gentoo.org
> www.apache.org
> http://dev.mysql.com/
> www.php.net/
> 
> ...because Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP = WIMP!
> 
> Check it out:
> http://digital9ja.tripod.com
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