What's the earliest Linux Kernel version you recall using? For me, it was version 2.0.36 back in 1999. It was part of the Brutalware Linux 1.1 distribution, which you would boot up from a floppy disk using MS-DOS with LOADLIN.EXE. Ah, those were the days!
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It's quite remarkable to realize that LOADLIN continued to be developed up until 2012!
I did start playing with linux in 2002, It was mandrake or debian. But I dont remember kernel version.
2.6 but probably biased by how many minor versions it had spanning over so much time 😅
I don’t remember exactly, but somewhere in the 2.2 era.
I don't recall the linux version, but I ran Ubuntu in early 2000, don't know on top of what was built on
I seem to recall it was 2.0 (possibly still 2.0.0) when I installed Slackware in January 1997.
was using slackware in 1994, the kernel probably had 1 as its major version number
I think 1.3 was in the Redhat and Slackware distributions I was using in 1996-97
I don't know what kernel i use now 😅 But my first distro has been mandriva 2006. I get/buyed as box on invex, 2 books, 6cd included.
I still have box and CDs, but i dont see kernel version, and i dont have CD drive so i can't look into CDs 🤣
Does Xenix running on an Apple Lisa count?
1.2.x - Slackware 3.0 back in 95
Slackware in 1996. Definitely don't remember kernel version, but just believing others in this thread it was 1.something…