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View Poll Results: What was your first Linux kernel version?
0.11 or 0.12 that fit (easily) onto a single microdisk ca. 1992, downloaded from a BBS on my modem, over an analog phone line.
It didn't do much more than have a comfortable, Unix-like shell. I started with Unix on SunOS while in college, then ran MS Xenix, Minix, Concentric, etc. on my personal computers afterward. I was originally a Slacker once distributions became a thing, though these days I wind up on Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS most often for the mass market support.
Don't remember the kernel version. Looking for an escape path from Windows my first taste of Linux was with Mandrake 5.1 (based on RedHat 5.1 I think). Stayed with Mandrake/Mandriva then Mageia. Then discovered Arch and stick with it since then.
Jean-Pierre
I bought a secondhand book with a Red Hat 5.2 disk that booted Kernel 2.0.36, so that was the first for me. However, I later inherited an ancient Slackware box that ran kernel 1.2.something.
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