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Simple question. Which distribution was your introduction?

For me, it was SLS Linux in '92-93, followed relatively naturally by Slackware, which was followed by Redhat.

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[–] riotrick 2 points 1 year ago

For me it was an old version of red hat. Back when our internet connection got upgraded from dial-up to cable. I wanted to have access in my own room, so started figuring out how to setup a router. This was with ipfwadm, so in the kernel 2.0 day in the mid to late 90's