What was your first Linux distro?

[Icarus]

Occasioned by this post, I was wondering which version got you into Linux, and which you remember the most fondly?

The first one I used was Red Hat 4.x, I think, and it was cool. And then I ran GENTOO, and exulted. That was the most fun I ever had on the command line, and it taught me more than almost anything I've used since.

[Alcuinus]

For me, Fedora 7 (woot! 13 is out!)

[Kaligraphic]

I started with Debian, in the early days of 3.0 (woody).

[Tsukuyomi]

I just know got around to burning Linux Mint.. I think version 8 o.O? I dunno, but I haven't tried it yet ^^; I'm kind of scared to be honest

[blkmage]

I had a few failed attempts with Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and Fedora before really getting into Linux and using it for everything with Gentoo in 2004.

[Bobtheduck]

Tried to install Something on the PS3 a while back, but it didn't quite work.

My first successful install was Ubuntu 9.whatever it was. 9.10 I think. I have 10.whatever now, but I don't use it because I need some programs I can only get on Windows... I do prefer it, otherwise, if it weren't for the lack of decent art software.

[Warrior4Christ]

I'm pretty sure it was Red Hat 5..ish. The installation wasn't as smooth (kept freezing midway!) and hardware support wasn't as wide (sound, etc didn't work) back in those days. So it didn't see a huge amount of regular use. I tried various others in the years after that - Red Hat 6, Caldera, Fedora, Mandrake, Ubuntu.

[ich1990]

PCLinuxOS 2009 KDE

As far as first encounters with linux go, it was pretty good. I couldn't get the internet to play nice with the cell card, though, so it ultimately went back to being Windows.

I have also done a bit with CentOS, and like that distro much better. Ubuntu is setup as dual boot and if it weren't for gaming, I would probably use it more often.

[Mithrandir]

I think my first Linux distro was Slackware. Probably the original, come to think of it. After trying just about everything, I've finally settled on CentOS for my servers. For a desktop, I don't use Linux (I prefer Mac OS).

[shooraijin]

Slackware also. Would have to have been around 1998, whatever version was out at that time.

[Valkaiser]

My initial contact with GNU/Linux was completely involuntary. I worked at an air force base one summer writing programs, at least that was what I was supposed to do. I wasn't assigned a computer for almost a month, and then I only got one because it had been banned from the network for being too slow... a Pentium 1 with Debian installed. I did not have root permissions. I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I ended up typing educated guesses as commands until I came across info and man. After that summer I installed Debian on as many old machines as I could acquire. A few months ago I moved to Arch, with which I have been quite pleased. I am also beating my head against Gentoo on other machines (not fun with a tiny net pipe).

[RefractedAhav]

Either SuSE before Novell ate it up and spit out it's bones, or Red Hat before Fedora