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Lubuntu 25.10: Il ritorno alle origini🕰️⏳

Lubuntu è stata una delle prime distribuzioni Linux che ho provato, e ho dei ricordi bellissimi di come faceva rivivere hardware ormai obsoleto. 👵💻

@linux

https://youtu.be/GaY603LcePY

#opensourceitalia #unolinux #gnulinux #distro #ita #opensource #Lubuntu #LinuxNostalgia #MyFirstDistro #Lubuntu25.10 #TechHistory #VintageComputing #LXQt #OpenSourceITA #LinuxItaliano #Informatica #RicordiLinux

Since my only use for Windows these days is gaming and I’d really like to get away from it, after I found an old #MacBookPro (from 2006!) stuck on Snow Leopard hidden at the back of the cupboard I thought I’d give #linux a go, purely for the hell of it. Since it’s my first go and an old machine I thought #LinuxMint #XFCE made sense. Who says you can’t teach an #olddognewtricks eh? #MyFirstDistro

Saw this hashtag and will share, too.
#MyFirstDistro

First distro I used was Slackware circa 2000 on an old 486 computer that served as a router, hosted a phpBB, and a webpage with a hamstercam feed 🐹

All probably horribly configured and insecure :pi_pi_piri_piri_pi:

Saw this hashtag and shared memories, will join too.
#MyFirstDistro
- installed on my own PC was an SuSE Linux of 10.x version, somewhen in 2005 or 2006 (that late just because I started to own a PC in 2003), so just shortly after the acquisition by Novel and rebranding to openSUSE. I use openSUSE nowadays too!
- first known to me was a RedHat that an older brother of my friend tried, from whom I borrowed a book about it and read it, since I didn't have any computer then in 2000 or so.

in terms of systems i used, #MyFirstDistro was Solaris 7 (i think) which was installed in a lab at college.

in terms of systems i ran, #MyFirstDistro was an old x86 system that i set up as a server which ran #NetBSD 1.5.2 (and which i colocated at a friend's house for several years)

I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.

When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.

#myfirstdistro was a boxed copy of Red Hat 5 or 6, in the late '90s. Tried some others including mandrake and suse. Switched to debian soon after, and to Ubuntu with breezy badger (2005). Still on Ubuntu today.

#MyFirstDistro was Jolicloud, an Ubuntu derivative for netbooks, which went on my trusty eeePC. From there, Ubuntu Netbook, and then, there was no turning back.

#MyFirstDistro was Mandriva in 2009. I remember it was cute. Still think this skin for Kopete is the best I've ever had in any messenger ☺️

@marado #myfirstdistro also was #MiniLinux. Not many people know that distro but since I didn't have much disk space and my PC was shared with my brother, it was my only.

#myfirstdistro was #Slackware in 97ish. I was going to school for CS, and even thought I bought a C compiler for my Amiga, it was too different to use for school assignments. A classmate introduced me to the idea of trying #Linux . I picked up Slackware because it sounded neat. It took me 3-4 days to get #Xwindow working on a Compaq laptop, but I got it working, and that was the start of my long journey with Linux. Slackware teaches you a lot about how Linux works.

#myfirstdistro was #Slackware, almost thirty years ago.

It was installed using a null-modem cable and needed a boot floppy disk to start.

The computer was a small laptop with monochrome display, 2 MB RAM and 50 MB hard disk.

I still have the boot & root floppy disks somewhere.

#MyFirstDistro was Red Hat Linux circa version 6.1 in the late 90's early 2000's and was an overall fun/great experience although there was a bit of fighting with Windows 98 on the boot sector of my Compaq to run both in a dual boot.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/articles/035/3590/3590f1.jpg

xubuntu 18.04

#MyFirstDistro #linux

#myfirstdistro was #MiniLinux. Later, a better machine got #RedHat 5.0. From 5.2 I jumped to #Mandrake, and a change of hardware led me to @debian , the distro that still has my heart.

The amount of Slackwares that served as #MyFirstDistro for many people is actually kind of crazy to me. I haven't seen Debian or Ubuntu as much—still there though. Maybe it's skewed but it also reflects helps age the people who use Mastodon and have an interest in Linux I guess :blobcatderpy:

Really interesting seeing all the diversity of responses on the #MyFirstDistro hashtag.

Well for me, it was Slackware 3 (can't remember the specific minor version release). Was fascinating to tinker with, having previously only used DOS and Windows, and later I discovered Live CDs and realised I could try dozens of different distros without ever having to commit to installing anything.

@basil I was given a CD with #StormLinux on it as #MyFirstDistro

#MyFirstDistro was Slackware 3.0 in around 1995. I remember it well, it was at the time I was working at Deutsche Telekom in Euskirchen, steeped in mainframe tech (on SAP R/2 and IBM MVS/ESA).

A pile of floppy disks (well, the 3.5" ones by then), the excitement of a real OS on my own home brew computer, and the realisation of all the #UNIX like theory I'd learned by reading the big Coherent book a year or two previously in readiness for #SAP R/3 implementations.

#MyFirstDistro was Red Hat Linux 5.0 in 1997. I remember installing it while in the room next to sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk.

#MyFirstDistro Ubuntu 6.06 probablemente

#myfirstdistro was Manjaro KDE in late 2019, broke around a year later and left me with completely broken compositing;
next up are Kubuntu 20.04 in mid2020 I believe, and Xubuntu 20.04 around 2021.
around the beginning of summer 2021 I moved to a custom Artix desktop with Fluxbox, it didn't last long because my mac's GPU fried itself in late June I believe.
After getting my new (current) desktop I used Arch (w/XFCE) for a long while, then replaced it with Artix (KDE) which I still have on the disk.
Recently I also spent a month with elementary OS 7 on a microSD and Ultramarine GNOME on my laptop.

#myfirstdistro was Ubuntu :ubuntu: (Hardy Heron iirc). Switched to @opensuse :opensuse: :tux: some years later and never changed again.