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I think it was RedHat. I had tried Debian first but switched to RedHat pretty quickly afterwards. (Back then, RedHat had nothing to do with "enterprise", it w
by kentonv 3y ago
I think it was RedHat.
I had tried Debian first but switched to RedHat pretty quickly afterwards.
(Back then, RedHat had nothing to do with "enterprise", it was just the most polished Linux distro around. Ubuntu didn't exist yet.)
(These days FWIW I use boring old Debian, and I'm not a zealot about it. It works for me. Use what works for you, I don't care. I have a separate machine for gaming and it runs Windows. I know Steam works pretty well on Linux these days but Windows is still less hassle for games.)
- godzillabrennus 3y agoBack when Redhat was the name of the enterprise releases and the open source releases.
- kentonv 3y agoI think there was no separate enterprise release at the time. But could be misremembering.
- chungy 3y agoRed Hat Linux 6.2E was the first "enterprise" release they made. Basically just standard RHL 6.2 but with long-term support. This release can be retroactively thought of as "RHEL 1"; The proper distribution that debuted as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 was based on Red Hat Linux 9, with the similar promise of long-term support. Future RHEL releases are carved out of Fedora releases, the spiritual successor to RHL.
- Agingcoder 3y agoNo you’re right. If memory serves me well, I used to switch between Slackware 3, redhat 2 and Debian 1.2(?) at about that time. I never liked redhat, enjoyed Slackware but ended up not enjoying the lack of a package manager, so Debian did the trick a few years later. There was a single redhat release. These days, just like you, I use Debian.
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- doubleg72 3y agoI ran Mandrake back then but also toyed with RH and Slackware. Back when all the leets ran enlightenment or fluxbox!