Vlad
Moderator
I was thinking about how I got started with Linux the other day after a friend asked what the very first distro I used was. I started out with Mandrake 10.1 when a friend gave me a CD set. I don't remember much about it since it was so long ago but the next one I used was Fedora Core 5. I remember I didn't care for it much and moved on to Ubuntu in its beginnings and didn't like it at all. I ended up back with Windows for a long time until Fedora Core 6 came to be. I used it its entire release cycle and didn't like Fedora 7 through the current 9 due to stability issues. After Fedora 7 I went to openSuSE and loved it. I stuck with that for quiet a while until I went back to Mandrake which had since merged and became Mandriva. It was good to be back so to speak but it was not with out its issues. Mandriva is still a great starter distro, but I started to miss openSuSE too much. Just recently moved back to it and have no intentions on going anywhere else for the time being.
Thats the main line I took, but I "distro hopped" around a LOT. I've tried Debian, RHEL, a few from Japan, and a few versions of BSD. I gave Solaris a try a few times but was in over my head. Linux is a far cry from System V and it was a little too much for me yet. I'm still learning new stuff every day and the jump into something that's real UNIX and not UNIX like was a little much.
I still think its amazing that you can freely download an entire OS with updates and all the software you want entirely free. Anyone else want to share an adventure into Linux/Open Source?
Thats the main line I took, but I "distro hopped" around a LOT. I've tried Debian, RHEL, a few from Japan, and a few versions of BSD. I gave Solaris a try a few times but was in over my head. Linux is a far cry from System V and it was a little too much for me yet. I'm still learning new stuff every day and the jump into something that's real UNIX and not UNIX like was a little much.
I still think its amazing that you can freely download an entire OS with updates and all the software you want entirely free. Anyone else want to share an adventure into Linux/Open Source?