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History-wise, I've been exposed to all the highs and lows of<br>
distributions over the last 11 years or so (has it been that long!?). My<br>
first distro was Slackware that I got on a cover CD (PCWorld October<br>
1997, I think) , that you installed using 8 floppies (IIRC) as El Torito<br>
boot from CD wasn't standard in PC bioses.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Andy, Can you remember which distribution Dimension was running way back when? That was my first taste of Linux and that was probably back in 1998-1999. Was it Redhat?<br><br>I remember trying to use Redhat on my old 200Mhz box back in the late 90s and failing to get the modem working. It was years before I looked at Linux on the desktop again.<br>
<br>Since then, I've almost exclusively used Debian in some form or another. Mostly in the server environment. I've played with other distributions such as Fedora but I've always found Debian to the most stable Linux distribution.<br>
<br>I moved from Windows to Linux on the desktop around 2004. Compared to my original attempt at Redhat, this was a revolutionary. Everything, for the most part, just worked.<br><br>I now only use Windows stuff at work!<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Simon.<br><br><br>