Whatever Mandrake 7.1 had... First Debian was Slink with the 2.0.36, isn't Distrowatch handy

Whatever Redhat v5.1 had. I believe it was linux kernel 2.2. I was supporting a Navy Operational Flight Trainer at Corpus Christi, TX. The flight simulator had been rehosted from a SEL RTM (pre-MPX) system to a Pentium-PC running Redhat 5.1.

Hi,
Nothing much to add to "4.15" except that having left Windows in early 2002 (?) for OSX then after retiring in 2011, I found the incessant costly and necessary upgrading and the feeling of having big brother OSX breathing down my neck too much and I finally went over to Linux and Linux Ubuntu because the only club in the area, 2 hours away, is Ubuntu oriented.
I often say I think my way of using Linux has to do with age because since I started with computers in the 1980's I always wanted to understand the how's and why's but now all I want is for the computer to function so as to be able to do what I need to do......... which, as a pensioner, isn't very much!
Thanks to all of you who have supplied answers to my beginners questions.
Garoolgan

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My first Linux kernel was 2.0.34 with Linux mandrake after suffering a lot for 10 years with M$.

3.16 in Mint 17.2 cinnamon

I started with System V Unix on an AT&T Unix PC 7300, partly because a buddy of mine had been part of the development team on that product. I later added a 3B1 (same thing, larger hard drive). These ran on Motorola 68010 CPU's (very early shared library implementation made it possible to fit UNIX on a 10 MB hard drive -- barely, and virtual memory made it possible to run in 1MB RAM -- barely).

When the AT&T line was discontinued, I moved to ESIX (also System V) on commodity Intel.

When that petered out, I discovered a very early Caldera. I have no idea what the exact version was, let alone the kernel version. I've run Caldera, RedHat and Ubuntu since then.

This newbie's first was LXLE (forget the version) on an old Dell laptop. Worked great and the new laptop is running Mint 18.3 Sylvia 64 bit.
Must confess, though, that I maintain Win 10 on my desktop machine simply because I need some of the editing and genealogical software that only runs on Windows. (sigh..) And just to prove that all old geezers are not computer illiterate, I'm 84 years old.

I had used ubuntu 7.10 with 2.6.22 Linux kernel .

I have been a HP-UX System Admin for 20 years and picked up a RH Linux v4 CD with OS 2.0.35 from a friend and loaded it onto a used x86. I have been using it now for almost 10 years and enjoy it more than other OSs I've used.

I recall installing a version of Slackware from diskettes in the mid-90s but the first Linux distro that I actually used was Debian 3.1 r6 with kernel 2.4.27 on a web server that I built.

with slackware 3.0 alongside windows 98

Slack-0.8 - I don't remember the kernel version.

That would've been kernel version 2.4.26 (used in Slackware 10.0). Me and my cousin stayed up until 2:00 in the morning installing Slackware 10.0 to my first desktop. We couldn't get it to boot without a kernel panic. So, we kept reinstalling. Finally, we removed two Radeon 7000 video cards from the board and booted the system using the onboard, Intel video card. That worked fine. Looking back, I'd say modesetting would've probably solved the problem. I'm not sure if kernel 2.4.26 even supported modesetting. At the time, I dual booted with Windows XP and Slackware 10.0. If I wanted to boot Slack, I opened the case and removed my Radeon cards. I was a hacker even in those days.

Absolutely no idea, but I do remember the post announcing it in comp.os.minix, does that count? :-)

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