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  1. @ajroach42 Mandrake Linux 9.something with a beautiful KDE 3 desktop on even days and Gnome 2 on odd days. The year was 2002, the CD came with some magazine and downloading the ISO was out of question #firstdistro

  2. @joel I got 6 off a CD that came with a magazine in 2000. Took me days to get X running on my hardware using my dads computer to dial up the internet to find mailing list threads to get it going.

    In the end my was what sent me back to Windows. I would try again in 2004 when my university lecturer handed out his customised core 2 based live CD that had all the utils we needed for the Unix admin class.

  3. @joel I got #RedHat 6 #hedwig off a CD that came with a magazine in 2000. Took me days to get X running on my hardware using my dads computer to dial up the internet to find mailing list threads to get it going.

    In the end my #winmodem was what sent me back to Windows. I would try again in 2004 when my university lecturer handed out his customised #Fedora core 2 based live CD that had all the utils we needed for the Unix admin class.

    #FirstDistro #MyFirstDistro

  4. @joel I got #RedHat 6 #hedwig off a CD that came with a magazine in 2000. Took me days to get X running on my hardware using my dads computer to dial up the internet to find mailing list threads to get it going.

    In the end my #winmodem was what sent me back to Windows. I would try again in 2004 when my university lecturer handed out his customised #Fedora core 2 based live CD that had all the utils we needed for the Unix admin class.

    #FirstDistro #MyFirstDistro

  5. @joel I got #RedHat 6 #hedwig off a CD that came with a magazine in 2000. Took me days to get X running on my hardware using my dads computer to dial up the internet to find mailing list threads to get it going.

    In the end my #winmodem was what sent me back to Windows. I would try again in 2004 when my university lecturer handed out his customised #Fedora core 2 based live CD that had all the utils we needed for the Unix admin class.

    #FirstDistro #MyFirstDistro

  6. @joel I got #RedHat 6 #hedwig off a CD that came with a magazine in 2000. Took me days to get X running on my hardware using my dads computer to dial up the internet to find mailing list threads to get it going.

    In the end my #winmodem was what sent me back to Windows. I would try again in 2004 when my university lecturer handed out his customised #Fedora core 2 based live CD that had all the utils we needed for the Unix admin class.

    #FirstDistro #MyFirstDistro

  7. @[email protected] don't you just love those popping colours? When Windows Still Was Any Good 🥰