My first attempt at installing Linux was SLS in 1994. I couldn't get it to work, and when I asked around for help, someone told me that SLS was badly broken due to untested updates, and they suggested Slackware as al alternative. My first successful install was Slackware, a week after I first tried SLS.
In 1995 I received a pre-prelease copy of Caldera, and I switched to that until the 1996 meeting at UNH with Linus. There, I received a copy of Redhat 2.1, and when I tried it, I discovered that Caldera was really Redhat 2.0 plus a handful of proprietary add-ons. I switched to Redhat at that point, and I've been using Redhat, Fedora, and CentOS ever since. I've tried a number of other distributions over the years, but none were sufficiently compelling to entice me to switch again. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarin...@wayga.org> wrote: > '96 > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Roger H. Goun" <ro...@bcah.com> > To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> > Subject: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester > Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2012 6:50 am > > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I got my first Linux distro from Jon "maddog" Hall and DEC when >> Linus Torvalds came to speak to UNH. :-D Red Hat Linux 2.1. > > I was there, and I got one, too, but I can't remember if it was my > first distro. What year was that? Anyone remember? > > -- R. > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/