First Linux Experience

[Jerry Davis]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:03:28 -0700
"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).

I'm dating myself too.
Slackware with about 33 floppies, copied from DOS.
"We've come a long way baby!"

Then RH 4 I think, then later, OpenLinux, then back to RH 8 or 9, then
Mandrake. I liked mandrake, and still do. So that is where I have
stayed. Now at work we use RHAL 4. But at home, I still use Mandrake (I
mean Mandriva).

> 
> 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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