<p dir="ltr">I got a mandrake Linux disk from a vendor in about 1999. It was essentially a Red Hat disk with the word "mandrake" written on it with a sharpie. I found an old pentium and installed it and played around and broke it about 40 times. I never did anything useful with it, just blew it up over and over, for years. <br>
In 2004, I got a factory-press of the first Ubuntu disk. Got into alpha-testing Ubuntu on the second release, when finally the mandrake experience finally made sense.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2014 8:36 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 02/11/2014 05:08 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
><br>
> What is your first encounter with Linux/Unix world?<br>
working for AT&T, I moved to their mini-computer group in 1985. I<br>
installed AT&T 3B2's and 3B5's. also installed their pc6300, pc7300..<br>
and installed slackware in our office in Norcross ( Oakbrook Parkway,<br>
off of Jimmy Carter) around 1997. It must have been around 2000 when I<br>
installed SuSe at home, never looked back. now on Debian at home, but I<br>
also have Mint on my laptop, and a few other distros in VMware player..<br>
CentOS, Fedora... FreeBSD.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Ale mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>
</blockquote></div>