What was your first distro? (piefed.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 hours ago

Slackware on a whole lot of lettered floppy disks.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 14 hours ago

Slackware was my first linux distro, but would Solaris or SunOS count?

[-] higgsboson@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

No, but bonus credit. I went Vax VMS, DEC Alpha Dux, Slackware, slowaris (x86 Solaris), Redhat, then LFS, Gentoo, RHEl Solaris 9, and then eventually a little of everything else.

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