Grant wrote:
> When did you start using linux?

1999.

> How did you get hold of your first distro?

i bought a book about redhat (don't remember which version) that came with
a cd. i stayed with redhat for about a day, then i went and bought the suse
boxed set. 6.1 i think.

> Were you a refugee from another distro?

well, if you're talking about the first distro, that seems quite unlikely,
right? ;-)

but as for slackware, i got my first slack cd in sept. 2001. suse was fine,
but i wanted to dig a little deeper into the system. i wasn't fleeing suse,
just wanted something new.

i once had a brief stint with debian, which ended when i tried to install
mutt on an X-less box. mutt (you know, a CONSOLE MUA) apparently depended
indirectly on X... nowadays i wouldn't notice such a thing anymore, because
my days on the linux console have long gone. i still use mutt (and slrn and
emacs) and do most of my file managing in bash, but always in X.

i also have zenwalk on a spare laptop i rarely use. zenwalk is fine,
because it's close enough to slackware not to get in my way. but there's no
compelling reason to switch.


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