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robertm
10-29-01, 09:42 AM
Just for fun wanted to see how many people have been running linux a while.


My first kernel was 0.97 was an install from slackware it came on < 80 1.4M floppies. Talk about a lot of changes from back then :)
mcrites
10-30-01, 01:28 AM
I believe it was 2.2.2x on redhat 4.2.
eobard
10-30-01, 01:31 AM
1.13.somethin'. Slackware it was. Not that I ever actually use Linux, I just put it on a system every so often and play around with it a bit.
XWRed1
10-31-01, 02:02 PM
Whatever game with Slackware 3.4
tbirdkiri
10-31-01, 02:12 PM
redhat 5
god that was years ago.....
never used it tho.....
XWRed1
11-01-01, 01:06 PM
The one that I installed on my machine, at the beginning of the run that has kept Linux on my machine (and as the main OS, no less) was Redhat 5.2.

Came with kernel 2.0.36, I believe.
klosters64a
11-01-01, 02:14 PM
2.0.36, in Red Hat 5.2. Sure can't claim that I first used Linux in the late Cenozoic, but it was a while agao.
David
11-01-01, 02:58 PM
First used a floppy version on linux in spring '01 - Tomsrtbt. The version I had came with a 2.0.x kernel

My first full install was Mandrake 7.1 with 2.2.15 which didn't like my graphics card. That was annoying. I didn't know anything 'bout the linux CLI then. I was hopeless.

Curretn linux has 2.2.16, getting a new version Fri or Mon - Kernel 2.4.10 I think (SuSE 7.3)
Thelemac
11-01-01, 03:16 PM
Hm...I first installed Slack about three and a half years back or so...

Don't really remember much about that one.
XWRed1
11-01-01, 06:11 PM
Running 2.4.13 now, with the kpreempt patch and the ext3 patch, all on an SMP AthlonMP 1.2.
sfa ok
11-01-01, 06:40 PM
Installed Mandrake 7.1 last year. I forgot which kernel it had.
robertm
11-01-01, 07:18 PM
I feel old some how I don't know why :)

We use Linux servers at work I don't have a lot of use for them at home but I keep one around anyway. Its great OS I use it a lot just depends on what I have to do. Best tool for the job I guess

Suse puts out a nice install now Its won me over might want to give them a try next time your playing around with linux.

running 2.4 Kernel now A lot has changed Keep Folding Oh this is not the folding forum ;)
tbirdkiri
11-02-01, 12:04 AM
haha i installed linux before XWRed1 and i cant use it for *****....
XWRed1
11-02-01, 12:24 AM
Err.. no. Redhat 5.2 was the first install where I started using it regularly.

I had previously installed Slackware 3.4 and 3.5 about 1.5-2.5 years before that, but didn't have the disk space on my system to keep them around.
PolyPill
11-09-01, 03:07 PM
I started using Slackware back in the summer of 95, rockin it out with the 1.2 kernel.

Nerds for life!!!!!