I remember a long time ago, I was very young and I got Ubuntu 5.04 on a CD because the CD was free.. I installed it and never used it again until version 8.04. I used Ubuntu 8.04, religiously upgrading to the newest version every 6 months until Ubuntu 11.04 when they started using Unity
After Ubuntu I started using openSUSE 11.4 and have loved it ever since. My laptop dual-boots Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, and openSUSE 11.4 32-bit, and my desktop has both the same plus I have space to play around with new distros when I have time.
I think it was Ubuntu 7.04
Red Hat Linux back in 2000
Fedora Core 1/2 and SuSE, both of which I loathed at the time and continue to loathe until this very day. Immediate RPM hell is not a good way to introduce a new user to Linux. Neither one lasted more than a week on my system.
With very little Linux experience I dove straight into a Gentoo Stage 2 install (I don't even think this is supported anymore. You kids and y'er fancy new-fangled gentoo installers. Back in [i]my[/i] day we bootstrapped our system uphill both ways.)
I bounced back and forth between Gentoo and Debian-testing for a few years, then switched to Arch Linux and Ubuntu.
I can't quite remember anymore, either Damn Small Linux or SUSE
I want to say Red Hat 4, but my memory is terrible. Back on a Pentium running at 200Mhz, KDE 1, pretty sure I had the option to use kernel 1.x or 2.x (whatever version they had back then)
I actually got it as a boxed copy at a newsagent (lol), I've got it somewhere, would be interesting to find it and install it again.
Edit: Can't have been 4, KDE didn't exist then. Must have been 5 or 6.
I bought some old used laptop 5+ years ago and it had Slackware on it.
I started using Linux in 2006 when I was 13 using Ark Linux 2006.1. At the time I barely knew what Linux was. I guess I just used it to play around at first, but after reinstalling Windows I started to get sick of how slow it was being so I installed Ubuntu 6.10.
Nowadays I dual-boot Windows 7 and Arch, using Windows primarily for gaming. Having a shitty computer isn't all that bad, at least it gives people the chance how Linux can speed up a relatively slow computer!
I think mine was Ubuntu 8.10. I still use Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 10.04 off a liveCD, that was this year actually.
Backtrack 3 :downs:
I think it was OpenSUSE 10 :D
When I was 12 I ran Damn Small Linux from a CD. I only had 28.8k dial-up, so downloading a full distro was out of the question until a couple of years later, when I downloaded Ubuntu 6.10.
My first was Ubuntu 11.10, started using it about 30 minutes ago :v:
I have no idea what I'm doing.
Ubuntu 10.04.
CentOS 5 on a VPS to be used as a web server.
Mandrake Linux in '03 or '04. I was 9 or 10 at the time.
Ubuntu 9.04, much like OP I only used Windows before, and rather than dual-booting to begin with, I switched over completely right away. After many fuck-ups, this decision is starting to feel like a good learning experience.
Slackware 2.3 - July 1995
Kernel 1.2.8
wow... I am old.
Some SUSE version when I was very young.
Ubuntu 9.04 (man, I feel like a noob compared to some of the people here). Was told by one of my friends to burn it to a CD and try it out, liked it... little did I know that same CD would end up replacing Windows when XP caught a particularly nasty virus, that nothing could really get rid of, and I haven't looked back. Still use 7 on my own rig, though Linux would be on here if it weren't for the fact that Steam and my games don't run so great in Wine.
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, way back when I had gotten my first XP capable computer. Before I had broadband so I had a friend download it over his 2mbit ADSL connection.
I stuck with ubuntu up until 8.04 Hardy Heron. (Or Hairy Hardon as it was more commonly referred to on the swedish forum)
After that I went directly to a hardened Gentoo install on my then Athlon64 3500+ computer. (It had a ATI Radeon x1650 PRO and I think 512MB DDR)
Nowadays I mostly use Sabayon, except for my old laptop which I'm currently setting up for a X-less Gentoo setup (Going to use it as a crappy server)
fedora core 2. tbo the only fedora distro that worked 100% for me.
ubuntu 9.04 i think
Fedora Core 1. I remember it had like 6 CDs.
Ubuntu 8.04. First on a virtual machine, then a dual-boot alongside Windows XP. Been using it ever since. I can't remember how many CDs I burned :v:
Ubuntu 7.04
Shit was so swag. Actually Ubuntu gave me nothing but headaches until the major kernel changes in 8.04, and suddenly all my laptop hardware woes went away. :D
opensuse
I tried some version of Suse on some really old "800+ MHz" AMD rig (you guys probably remember the marketing bullshit) that our family had.
I ended up going to bed at 5am because I was struggling with the installation and I wiped the drive and installed XP on the rig a couple of days later.
But I kept up the whole playing around with Linux thing for years to come, I remember having QEMU on an MP3 player, plugging that into a classroom PC and running some sort of lightweight Linux distro on the school's computer on top of Windows NT.
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