What was your first Linux distribution?

[lucasbytegenius]

What was the first Linux distribution you tried?

My first was Knoppix, it was pretty good I thought, and it supported my old hardware Too bad I couldn't figure out how to install it at the time though.

What about you?

[inexia]

Mandrake for me. I had to build drivers to make my sound card and 'modem' work. It was a labor of love that has not stopped for over a decade.

[Rob]

Red Hat 3.0.3 (on a packard bell w/ a 540mb hd). Remember installing w/ floppies?

[steelmanronald06]

Gentoo ftw

[inexia]

I still have my boot floppies for Mandrake 7.0 and SuSe 7.2 after all these years

[grim76]

Red Hat 9.0 was my first dive into Linux and never looked back.

[Jesi]

Mandrake 7.2 Was my first. <3

I wonder what it would take to make a livefloppy/livecd carry around with my when I get nostalgic.

[Victor Leigh]

Ubuntu was my first LInux distro. Can't remember the version. Now I am with Puppy Linux. Would like to get back to Ubuntu but beginning to fall more and more deeply in love with the Puppy.

[oldlord]

Fedora core 2... Beautiful but pain in the ....

[lucasbytegenius]

Fedora core 2... Beautiful but pain in the ....

How is it a PITA?