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Grim Reaper 01-29-2003 01:57 AM

How old were you when you installed your first Linux distro?
 
Well, I haven't seen this question asked before, must be about the only one :D

Well, how old were you when you installed your first linux distro and started playing with it and how old now?

Me: 15

And i am 16 now, turning 17 in 2 months :D

Hmmm, might chuck in here, and what was that first distro?

Me, Slackware :D But then I chucked IPCop on my netserver and used that for a fair while, Slackware was just on another 'test' box which i didn't touch all that much...

acid_kewpie 01-29-2003 02:33 AM

three and a half.

Grim Reaper 01-29-2003 02:46 AM

lmfao, may i add, can we be serious? :P

I'm just interested to know how old people were, because your always hearing about these young people creating these wonderful inventions for programs, or cracking into some big company etc etc...Just wondering when everybody else started :p

MasterC 01-29-2003 02:46 AM

Um, ~20 or 21. Now 23.

First distro, Mandrake. Actually, there is a question on here about this, I will see about hunting it down for ya.

Cool

Grim Reaper 01-29-2003 03:03 AM

lol, bugger, if there is one on here then i guess my searching skills aren't too great :o

MasterC 01-29-2003 03:25 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=30619

Pretty much covers these things, but it's not nearly as specific as this one :)

Cool

Grim Reaper 01-29-2003 05:19 AM

Ah, tah.

Now i understand acids post..he hasn't agreed with this, nor the other thread...

finegan 01-29-2003 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
three and a half.
Aha, this proves it, Acid is really from Saturn, I knew it! The whole British thing was a farce.

Me? 24, 8 months and 12 days... and I'm 26 now.

Cheers,

Finegan

Darin 01-29-2003 02:47 PM

Around '97-'98 that would mean I was around 26 back then, 32 now.

NSKL 01-29-2003 03:05 PM

First time, 15, with SuSE and Slack, but i ditched SuSE and went on with Slack. I'm 16 now...
-NSKL

phoenix 01-29-2003 05:09 PM

25 and still 25

onurb 01-29-2003 05:36 PM

51 and now 53
Mandrake 7.0 >> 9.0 and all versions in between

mike 01-29-2003 05:46 PM

I was 32 when I started using linux. My first distro was mdk 7.2 and I have used all of them since. I have also used redhat 7.2.

nakkaya 01-29-2003 05:57 PM

15 and a half now 19 first dist was slackware
now using red hat

bulliver 01-29-2003 06:58 PM

I started with RH 7.3 last spring. I remember because I downloaded the two disk images for 7.2 and about an hour after I was done they released 7.3 which is my fault I guess. So I downloaded 7.3, and I was choked that it was three disks, but I installed it. I still have the two 7.2 disks sitting in my house, never been used. Anyone want them?

I was 25 then and I'm 26 now.


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