From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 15/02/2026 17:27, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-15, Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anyway, my first distro was the old RedHat 6. Then I bought a   
   >> no-name laptop with Windows NT on it, and used that for awhile.   
   >> Then I tried to install RedHat. Partway through the screen would   
   >> blank and a weird glow would appear. (I later learned it was some   
   >> issue with the AMD K6 CPU.)   
   >>   
   >> So I download Debian and burned an install CD. We were on a road   
   >> trip, so I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat getting it   
   >> installed, getting familiar with dselect, and getting the GUI   
   >> running. It was very absorbing.   
   >>   
   >> I didn't try any other distro until Gentoo years later.   
   >   
   > When I first decided to set up a Linux machine, I went to the   
   > local bookstore and perused the various Linux books which had   
   > an installation CD included.  The book I liked best happened   
   > to be by Patrick Volkerding, so my first distro was Slackware   
   > 3.5, which ran happily on a laptop with 48MB of memory and a   
   > 1.3G hard drive.   
   I started with RedHat but Richard K had  always raved about Debian so I   
   started with that, but got fed up with the fact that Stable was years   
   behind the curve...so tried Ubuntu and didn't really like it and every   
   was raving about MINT so I installed it and mostly it Just Worked.   
      
   That was about 13 years ago now   
      
      
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