I started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies… then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)
I’d forgotten about LFS. Not sure if it should even count, for me at least, it’s not like I actually used it to daily drive. But I did use the knowledge from it to make a mini bootable “rescue” distro that I would put on backup disks so they’d be self-sufficient.
I started using un*x on mainframe (aix, irix, hpux, etc). On a regular PC you could have SVR4, BSD, Minix, things like this, then linux came, in the 90s we had no CD, we downloaded the floppies images from ftp on the university server, then rushed to home to install linux on a 486, we did a lot of compile ourselves, no choice back in time. I used some distro after, like Mandrake (I’m French) but always liked the DIY thing, but it was more and more complicated and long… this is why I started using Debian in the days…
I started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies… then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)
I’d forgotten about LFS. Not sure if it should even count, for me at least, it’s not like I actually used it to daily drive. But I did use the knowledge from it to make a mini bootable “rescue” distro that I would put on backup disks so they’d be self-sufficient.
Can’t tell if joking or old or both…?
I started using un*x on mainframe (aix, irix, hpux, etc). On a regular PC you could have SVR4, BSD, Minix, things like this, then linux came, in the 90s we had no CD, we downloaded the floppies images from ftp on the university server, then rushed to home to install linux on a 486, we did a lot of compile ourselves, no choice back in time. I used some distro after, like Mandrake (I’m French) but always liked the DIY thing, but it was more and more complicated and long… this is why I started using Debian in the days…
Old coot here