I started on Redhat 6.2, followed Redhat for a while, but didn't like working with RPM so much. Tried some minimal distros on old laptops, switched to Slackware, then discovered Debian and have been on Debian and Ubuntu ever since. -Steve Brian Wall wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux > user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: >> What distros were your main distro in the past but are not your distro anymore? > > I'm going to bite, because this thread could get interesting. > > First distro: Redhat 4.2. Me and a buddy went 1/2 and 1/2 on a copy > at best Buy (yes, Best Buy used to be good for something!) > I recall two CDs and a non-descriptive sheet of paper telling me to > read the docs on the CD. I finally got Apache and sendmail working, > and I was in high heaven (at 14.4 Kbps no less). > > RH4.2 became RH5.2 then 6.1 and finally 7.3. RH7.3 was a nice distro, > as I recall it sported a newish 2.2 kernel (or was it shiny new 2.4?) > that rocked the world. > > Then RH8 came out. Oh boy... RH8. I give props to the Anaconda team > for making RH easier to install than Windows. RH8/RH9 was > interesting, but I could feel the bloatware creeping up on me. The > timy little powerhouse that was RH4.2 was no more. > > I hopped off the RH train around Fedora 1, and attempted Debian. I > found Debian to be reminiscent of that beloved RH4.2 install, and I > still use it today. > > Now all the distros feel the same. Easy to install, easy to use, > demanding of hardware. It's a tradeoff really, ease of use and hugh > functionality comes at the cost of more CPU and RAM. "Ohhh shiny" > takes even more. CLI is still slick and clean. Choose your weapon. > Mine is Debian, only because it's so easy to branch off dueing > install. Will this box be lean, full featured, or somehwere in > between? > >> I currently use antiX Linux as my main distro and Puppy Linux as my backup distro. > > Oh yeah... back to your trolling about antiX. Be proud of your uber > awesomeness, congrats on installing one of hundreds of distros that do > certain things better than others. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list