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What was your first distro? (piefed.world)
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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[-] kubok@fedia.io 3 points 21 hours ago

RedHat 5.1. Man I'm old.

I also still have a Slackware 3.0 CDROM lying around. Which I actually liked back in the day.

[-] pp99@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

me too with redhat 5 at my first job. shortly after moved to 6 that, as far as I remember, was the first showing the green OK at the right of every service starting instead of a mess of output

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