What was your first Linux kernel version?

FrenchGuy · 08-07-2018, 01:07 AM

It was at least 20 years ago. Abandoned by IBM who phased out os/2 my only option to avoid the blue screen of death was to switch to Linux. By chance Mandrake did the trick and allowed me to escape. Never went back to end up with Arch Linux these days.
I have still a lot of things to learn and almost the same amount to discover... That's make life enjoyable.
Best thoughts to all.

janaf · 08-07-2018, 01:21 AM

I started with Xenix in the early nineties (or maybe late eighties?), but because of lacking GUI I tried SCO Unix, before I converted to Slackware Linux - it must have been a version of 0.99 or maybe before. I struggled with a SCSI disk controller, tried to flush the ROM, but ended up with purchasing a new one, and then succeded to install Slackware on it.
Since then I have been using Debian and Ubuntu, but always ending up with Debian. But Ubuntu Touch on the phone, of course...

cmb · 08-07-2018, 02:14 AM

I *think* my first was a 0.12 something, though it might have been a 0.95 or so - pre-X windows working reliably anyway! As others have said, don't miss the floppy shuffling, though I was in the fortunate position of working in a Uni with fast internet, so didn't need dial-up.

intranet_man · 08-07-2018, 02:22 AM

Hmm, I think Red Hat 7 (this may have eventually been RHEL 2.0 or 2.1) circa 2001 / 2002 then dyne:bolic at home.

Prior to that used Solaris quite a bit in the lab ~ 1998-2002.

dchmelik · 08-07-2018, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by cdjc

Slackware 2.0 (kernel 1.0.x) was my very first install of a Linux distro, way back in 1994, while I was in college for a Computer Science degree. We used Linux back then to learn UNIX programming and scripting[...]

Same here, but in 1997. The book I found (I think peter3 mentioned) had a Slackware 2 CD when version 3 or 4 was out (but I didn't know.)

josephj · 08-07-2018, 02:31 AM

I had Red Hat 7.2 for awhile (whatever kernel that had).
I was using Unix System 3 a few years earlier at work.

Honest Abe · 08-07-2018, 02:38 AM

first - ubuntu 10.04 (Still have the CD

)
Oldest - RHEL 4.8, Solaris 6

chrisretusn · 08-07-2018, 03:02 AM

Picked 0.02 - 0.99, with Yggdrasil. Not sure the exact release number, but I know it was not 1.0 or more.

ajo0909 · 08-07-2018, 03:09 AM

then FreeBSD, then NetBSD, and beginnign with 1999, linux again up to now.

ehartman · 08-07-2018, 03:36 AM

I started in 1994 with Slackware 1.1.2, kernel 0.99.15 on a 486/66DX2 which I specially bought FOR running Linux (it had supported hardware, especially the video adapter).

tazza · 08-07-2018, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by muchristian

2.2 It was my first experience installing an OS. 9 Months previous I got my first computer and I had developed a poor attitude towards Windows 98. I could have done better than Mandrake for a start.

Don't worry. I started on Mandrake to in the late 90's too. I was told (force fed) "it is dah easiest to use" so took the bait.. soon after switched to Debian but been on Slackware since the whole systemd thing.

jdelima307@ziggo.nl · 08-07-2018, 04:35 AM

i started using linux in 2006 with ubuntu warty

Tux! · 08-07-2018, 04:37 AM

My first Linux was a slackware that started from two floppy disks: the kernel/bootsrap and the RAM-disk. I used it a long time and learned about Linux basics. When I got InfoMagick's Linux Developer Resource on a 6-CD-rom set, I switched to SUSE 4,then 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 42 and TW. I now also run CentOS, but I still prefer openSUSE, esp TW (now running kernel 4.17.12)

steve77 · 08-07-2018, 04:45 AM

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.

jjge · 08-07-2018, 04:54 AM

On the Infomagic 2 disk set of 1994