Simple question. Which distribution was your introduction?

For me, it was SLS Linux in '92-93, followed relatively naturally by Slackware, which was followed by Redhat.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    My first I used was Slackware back in 2002 on a 486 with a 250MB disk. Wasn’t easy when you have to compile half the software and there’s basically nor enough room for the build environment. This was on a small test and development PC I used whilst at uni.

    When I went all in on my desktop and waved Windows goodbye I used Ubuntu as that’s what I’d had good experience with on my headless VMs.

    Now running EndeavourOS and love it.

    • @NABDadOP
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      21 year ago

      I just flashed back to running my first Linux box and struggling to get X Windows working with a miniscule amount of RAM and a swap partition.

      I’m thinking I had 1 MB RAM on that machine. I can’t wrap my head around that. It just seems impossible. I do remember my wife bought me 16MB RAM as an anniversary present after that, and I was excited by how much easier everything was with so much memory.

      I think the 16MB was around $1000.00 at the time.