My first ditro was Slackware 2.2, used that for about a year but I struggled with it, the book I bought came with it but the book was written for 2.0 and a lot of things had changed. I heard from someone that a guy at a convenience store knew a lot about Linux so I paid him a visit one night and he was more than happy to answer my questions and pointed me to the local LUG. Went to a LUG meeting and they gave me a Red Hat 4.1 cd, I used Red Hat for quite a few years until I got tired of compiling everything myself and tried to be more dependent on the RPM system but I found it to be lacking. I tried a lot of distros through those years (Suse, Caldera, Mandriva, Fedora, Gentoo, Knoppix) and eventually settled on Debian, I think the apt-get system and the deb packages were far superior to anything I found else where. Linux had been my primary workstation and all my servers since I had started to use Red Hat back in 97 and through my switch to Debian but I got fed up with all the political crap that kept going on which caused the end users like myself a lot of greif. I remember numerous occasions of conflicting packages being submitted that would hose something important (like x windows) and then the package maintainers would argue about who's responsibility it was to fix it while those in user-land hung in limbo for days with things not working. Maybe that isn't common any more but years of that going on and I eventually gave up on Linux on the desktop when Apple switched to Intel processors. Before OSX I was an avid Mac basher and would choose even Windows over it but I have to say OSX gave me the powerful insides I crave with a uniform and stable UI I need to do daily work. Also the Hackintosh scene makes it more affordable for me while letting me scratch the occasional itch I get to dig into the guts of an OS. I still use Linux for all my servers at home and I've set up a decent sized linux cluster for my company, at first Debian but upgrade stability and server driver issues (without having to compile a kernel) moved me to the Ubuntu LTS versions. I don't think I've have a Linux box with a GUI in years, its all CLI for me and that's how I likes it. So I guess my left behind list: Everything Currently using for servers: Ubuntu CentOS (only for my Asterisk server at home because Asterisks takes a larger commitment to learn to setup than I have time and interest) P.S. Anyone remember pre-Gnome Enlightenment? That was when UI design started to get really cool and I'd look at everyone using Windows 95 with disgust. I just looked up a screenshot and now it just looks really cheap and nerdy to me, hehe. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org on behalf of Steve T Sent: Wed 6/30/2010 10:21 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] What distros do you no longer use? On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > What distros were your main distro in the past but are not your distro anymore? I started with Redhat and Debian. I still use Redhat only when I have to for business and haven't touched Debian in years. -- "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!" -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4772 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100630/cbd631b4/attachment.bin