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nobody 2y ago

Today's blast from the past: revisiting my first distro 20 years later.

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Quentin 2y ago

I remember when Novell bought Suse linux 👴

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nobody 2y ago

Yessir. My first was SuSE Professional 7, by SuSE gmbh.

Novell... I'll never forgive and never forget.

Hoping for good things from openSuSE.

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Quentin 2y ago

At that time I switched to Debian and never looked back 😗

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nobody 2y ago

Yup. I went RedHat. SuSE was where the two camps used to meet in the middle.

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paulo 2y ago

I remember that!

My first two distros were Debian and OpenSuse.

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nobody 2y ago

SuSE and Slackware for me. Remember how cool KDE was back then (still is, but really blew my mind back then)?

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JC 🪐💾🌄📚 2y ago

Heh, it was my first distro too. Circa 2001.

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Veronica 2y ago

It was 2009 for me. First intro to Linux=YaST. The “helpers” in the English-language forum were not nice to people and my German wasn’t good enough to follow the other. I switched to Ubuntu then Debian. I checked up on Tumblweed during the lockdown; forums are much better, at least. I wonder when the bastards finally left…

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nobody 2y ago

There's always a group of them somewhere. I've never received meaningful help from a distro forum.

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Veronica 2y ago

True, that.

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Tony Agudo 2y ago

Red Hat Linux 8 was my first. 6 disc boxed set(3 install CDs, 3 source CDs) bought from the local Staples for $40 USD. Never went back to Windows since.