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07-Dec-2005, 12:47 AM #1
What was the first distro you used?
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6-7 years ago it was red hat linux, couldn't stand it. and then the last 3 I've used gentoo.
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red hat was the first i got to work
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08-Dec-2005, 03:41 AM #4
Mandrake linux 10.1 sometime last year. It worked ok considering the junk heap I was running it on.
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I first used Mandrake 7. It wa very friendly to a new user and I hear they have only made improvements in that area.
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My first was Suse in a lab experiment with networking and running a custom program across that network. Did alright, had trouble with the video card.

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SuSE...
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Mepis 2004.6 about 6 months ago as an experiment now trying to get Apahce to run on it
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Lindows 3.0; although it was Debian, it appeared crippled. Using Fedora core 2, but with issuses.
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Phat Linux
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twotugs: Fedora Core 2 was a bit unstable. I would definitely invest the time to upgrade to at least FC3. FC3 and 4 both are much more stable than FC2. I saw regular kernel oops running FC2 but have not seen those with 1,3, or 4.
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Red Hat 5.X and whatever version of Mandrake was out at the time. Was trying to decide which I liked better. I stuck with Redhat until they came out with Fedora. Then I switched to Suse.
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RH 6.0 .... then skipped to RH9 then Fedora when it came out
Played about with Mandrake, Slackware and various others, but mostly Fedora, it does what I need it to without much hassle.
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Fedora Core 2. I got the cd's from a freind at collage. Though it was kinda interesting to me, It was installed for less then three days.
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