What was your first Linux kernel version?

mhenriday · 08-07-2018, 09:38 AM

My first Linux kernel was that used with Ubuntu Dapper Drake, i e, 2.6.12. Now I'm using 4.17.13 with Linux Mint 19.0 with the Cinnamon desktop. Linux has come a long way....

Henri

DavidMcCann · 08-07-2018, 09:40 AM

Mine was 2.0 in a port of Red Hat 5.2 to the Motorola architecture. That came pre-installed: the first Linux I installed myself was Fedora 1 with the kernel 2.4.

stgagnon · 08-07-2018, 09:41 AM

Debian Stretch LOL!

First Unix was SunOS 1.1 - Solaris 7.0 from 1986-1998. (I had to wiki that.. ) Then all Windows until 2018.

First real taste of Linux was only this year, Debian Stretch on a Beaglebone Black!

-Suz

nusiba · 08-07-2018, 09:43 AM

Hi every one...
I begin with
redhad but idonot rember the version of it.lastly ubuntu 16.04
Iwont to practical any thing in it.
I so happy to join to this community.

fatmac · 08-07-2018, 09:44 AM

My first distros were ZipSlack8, RedHat 4.2, Redhat 5.0, & Debian 2.1, so if the above is correct, I may have been using an earlier kernel than 2.0.32.

dlj0 · 08-07-2018, 09:45 AM

My first kernel was 0.96c.

AJusps · 08-07-2018, 09:45 AM

Ubuntu 14 I believe.
From there, quickly jumped to Xubuntu 14, 16, 18... and now starting off in Debian.

Also dabble here and there with Fedora.

Dindigul · 08-07-2018, 09:56 AM

I just remember the inaugural issue of PC Magazine carried CDs of Fedora. To me it was Linux and never understood what the kernel meant or for that matter the version. I was just trying out Linux, thinking the desktop might be better than Windows. Anyway, disappointed with it, I tried Puppy, Peanut, Mandrake, and all others that came with magazines.

armoredbear · 08-07-2018, 10:03 AM

2.6.9-34 RHEL 4 Update 3. I had been exposed to Solaris & HPUX at he workplace. This was the first time I got to install and work with linux. Love at first sight!

challengersky · 08-07-2018, 10:09 AM

I dabbled with 0.01, got turned off, tried again with 0.99, still not good for me. I really got into Linux with 2.2 to present.

jeremy · 08-07-2018, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jsbjsb001

What was yours Jeremy?

Either 0.98.1 or 0.99.5. At this point I'm not sure which version of Yggdrasil I installed first.

--jeremy

marXtevens · 08-07-2018, 10:18 AM

Was supporting VM/370 SP6 using Windows and others on the team were working with SunOS 4.x, on workstations or Macs. I figured I needed to learn Unix, so I found and downloaded Slackware's first release, set up a dual boot, and learned from there.

Ira123 · 08-07-2018, 10:20 AM

Ubunto 1204,Ira

jeremy · 08-07-2018, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by steve77

Interesting why should you invite me to the poll trough email and yet refuse my vote!
Back in 199x a friend of mine who was a techie in one of our telecoms gave me a CD labelled Debian 3.0 r0 so my first kernel should have been linux 2.2.20 so the later half of my life I use Linux almost every day.

You need a single post to vote in any poll. You should be able to vote as expected now.

--jeremy

dfreybur · 08-07-2018, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by pan64

I started with SCO-Unix in 1993 (if I remember well), there were HP-UX, Solaris, Reliant Unix..., but I have no any idea when and how I met linux first and which distro/version was that. Maybe RedHat around 2000.

I'd been a UNIX sysadmin for 10 years at that point and a VMS sysadmin before that when I encountered my first Linux box in 1993. Someone told me they expected it to be SCO Unix but wasn't and could I take a look.

No known password so I started guessing. Hey look, it runs something called Linux. I remembered reading about that on Usenet. Someone bundled it for use, nice! I corrected the routing and DNS, went on with my work. When I found whose box it was I bugged them to use better passwords!