I had a bit experience with linux mint 11 on my parents laptop, otherwise on my own i still use 11.10.
Some version of Red Hat.
Arch a few years ago.
Surprised nothing went wrong.
I am thinking about switching to arch, should i?
You should try to install it in a virtual machine first, once you'Re familiar with the process things become much easier.
I remember my father didn't want to install Windows on his computer, so he installed Red Hat (whatever version). Later he installed Suse and knoppix. Later around 2003 (I think), he got a pirate copy of Windows XP. Since then I've been using Windows :(
[QUOTE=Boris-B;34357725]You should try to install it in a virtual machine first, once you'Re familiar with the process things become much easier.[/QUOTE]
You mean the install is hard? No.
I have tried it before, i just haven't USED it that much, so i don't know if it's worth it.
11.04
yesterday
first time ever, getting vps
[QUOTE=343N;34370656]11.04
yesterday
first time ever, getting vps[/QUOTE]Hey, i know you! You are the one everybody teases with you having birthday :v:
First one was Ubuntu. Then Backtrack 3. And I've used Linux for a total of probably less than 2 hours.
Fedora Bordeaux, or Fedora 5.
ubuntu
Knoppix, about 6-7 years ago. :downs:
Mine was also knoppix around 6 years ago :v:. Didn't know anything about livecds when my friend showed it to me.
Mine was Ubuntu 11.01.
The wireless internet adapter my computer had plugged into the back of it had software on a CD that had to be installed with it in order for it to work properly that wasn't compatible with Linux. I couldn't use the internet so I just went back to using Windows XP.
I plan to get a new build soon, and yes, with a brand new OS...
mint 9
Ubuntu 8.10 back in December of 08', then 10.04 LTS, did have 11.04 but had heard since they migrated from Gnome UI to Unity that PACE was being used to deter piracy and other things, so I've been using Mint 12.
[QUOTE=Weps;34439434]Ubuntu 8.10 back in December of 08', then 10.04 LTS, did have 11.04 but had heard since they migrated from Gnome UI to Unity that PACE was being used to deter piracy and other things, so I've been using Mint 12.[/QUOTE]
Piracy? What are you talking about?
knoppix. installed it on an old p3 thinkpad. Don't quite remember how old I was. But then I moved on to ubuntu, and now arch. Sometimes I want to go back to a more user friendly distro, but I can't make myself do it.
Linux Mint 12. December 2011.
[QUOTE=Lynrax;34341868]opensuse[/QUOTE]
^
CentOS 6, 1 week ago ^.^ running on my server getting used to the CLI through putty is a steep learning curve, keep typing the wrong thing managed to remove some files I wanted on it.
Interesting how it manages the RAID 1 on it though. Still got to find a replacement drive for one of the drives that failed.
Knoppix. It was bundled with a PC Utilities magazine.
My first distro was a Portuguese Distro called Caixa Magica 12 (Magic Box 12)
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caixa_M%C3%A1gica"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caixa_M%C3%A1gica[/URL]
I got it pre-installed with my Laptop that I got from my school.
Then after few years later I tried CentOS and then Debian, that I currently use on my Laptop.
Schools should buy and distribute Ubuntu laptops. They are generally cheaper, and no driver incompatibilities, since the hardware is guaranteed working with Ubuntu. Also, makes it much more difficult for students to get an infected machine.
xdsl
Ubuntu back in 2008, I don't remember much about it. Then in 2010 I used a newer version of Ubuntu on a live cd. Now I'm running Crunchbang on the computer, since I got another machine with Win7 on it.
Backtrack 3. :downs:
Slax > Xubuntu > Sabayan > Arch > Gentoo > back to Arch
Ubuntu... 10.04? Yeah. Oh man, I was only 14...
Got back from my summer holidays and I was really wanted to install Ubuntu on my laptop like some demented person. I don't remember why exactly, just wanted to try it out. So I used a LiveCD (I felt that Wubi was riskier somehow) and created a partition for Linux. Fine.
"Would you like to also create a partition for swap space?"
I have no idea why, but I simply used the Windows 7 boot partition, meaning that Windows 7 now had no way of starting up. Grub also fucked up somehow, and in the end the laptop would simply hang on power on, after the bios. :suicide: I freaked out, and I spent the next couple of days researching on how I could bring back grub. After toiling painstakingly for hours with the LiveCD, I finally went into the living room and announced that "the laptop is working, but you can't use Windows on it." That meant I was stuck with Linux (on the laptop at least) until I could find a disc to re-install Windows 7. Which was... educational.
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