From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   The Natural Philosopher wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):   
      
   > 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   
      
   I don't always use Debian, but when I do it's Debian Sid   
   (unstable).   
      
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