I started using linux when i was 21-22. it was redhat 6 or 7 i think. Now, 25.

I looked at it at 14, but actually started at 15 with Debian, slackware, and then kept xandros for the family to use

First LiveCD 13 first install 14 that was about 2 months ago
I think I saw SUSE linux at BestBuy (they had maybe 10 boxes right next to windows, all computers though ran windows I didn't buy it) but other then that my computer is the only computer I ever saw running linux

Having complete computer illiterate parents doesn't help, I believe I broke a lot of rules installing linux but i was worth it

Trying to install today. Old enought to have keypunched my Basic assembler source code into IBM punch cards to be read into the Assembler compiler.

I was 13.....

18 started with mandrake 9.(forget) then went to slack, tryed mandrake 10.1 and went back to slack, now with Debian and looks like I might eb here for a bit. I am 19 now be 20 in may.

21, that means acouple weeks ago!

30...6 months ago...a little late

Hmmm.

2 years ago, when I first got a broadband connection, I had just turned 68 and was an "insider" (beta tester) for what was then called Lindows - now Linspire. I had had CDs of RedHat 6 (I think), 7 and 8 but was never game to install them.

Tried a range of distros since, SuSE 8, 9, 9.1, Mandrake 9, 9.1 and a stack of others that mostly failed to install.

I had evaluated OS/2 Warp 3 Connect and Warp 4 (which I loved) maybe 10 years ago. Would have been 60 I guess.

What else? That's about it, I think.

I look forward to really being able to chuck MS Windows, but I still run some really good audio processing stuff on it. Also a train driving simulator called TrainMaster which is very realistic.

I believe there is a new opensource DOS called FreeDOS (I think) which I really should try out for the DOS apps I still have. If I have the name right, it supposedly allows 256 long filenames instead of 8+3 as well, and uses proper memory management too. Really should try it

About 5 years ago, at 42.

Started with Peanut Linux, tried Mandrake, Slackware and a few others before settling on SuSE 7.2. Stayed with them through to 9.1 then changed to Gentoo. I think I'll be here a while.

I *will* get round to LFS though...

I had used redhat 7.3 as my first distro in the summer of 2002. I was 25 years old at that time.As I was completely ignorant of the unix-like way of things work I didn't get too far.Primal reason was my winmodem which just could not connect to the internet.So I uninstalled it shortly after summer.
A year later, autumn of 2003, I was more and more interested in linux and I installed Slackware 9.0 to use as a http/ftp server but my primary machine was windows xp.I went on for a year like this, constantly learning about linux using this site as my main knowledge base.When I was confident enough to have everything I want to work under linux I made the switch to linux on my desktop PC.This was september 2004 at the age of 27, always with Slackware 10.0 which I use untill now, and I am very sattisfied

I ran redhat>fedora2>mandrake10>10.1>fedora3> now about to run ubuntu.

Wow, the variety of difference in when everyone started with Linux.

As for me, I start in July of 1995. That would make me 12. But I started with Unix when I was 5 by using SefLin at a public library.

I am 11. I program...
I dont know which distro I want yet...



I RULE!!

Hmmm... when did red hat 4 come out? I must have been maybe 16-17?? Now 23 Been through RH, Mandrake, Slack, SuSe, Yellow Dog, Gentoo (sort-of still working on that one). I am keeping SuSe around... so much easier and more reliable than the others.