How old were you when you installed your first Linux distro?

Grim Reaper · 01-29-2003, 01:57 AM

Well, I haven't seen this question asked before, must be about the only one

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

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

Me, Slackware

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

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

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.