My first exposure to Linux was in 1995 or 1996. I was in Barnes and Noble and bought TurboLinux - a whole operating system for $30! Well, I never did get that running and ended up in Win95/98 for a long time.<br><br>I re-learned about Linux from a friend in a mud circa 2000. I installed Pre-Fedora core Red Hat 6 (I believe) at home to act as a samba and modem sharing server for my not-yet-wife and me. We actually played Diablo over a shared modem link for a couple of years. I then bought a pre-installed Red Hat 7 server from Dell in 2001 to replace the company's aging Netware server.
<br><br>I moved to a Suse server at home in 2002 and brought in a Suse email server in about 2003. I used Fedora for a while, but yum gave me the fits. Suse worked well until I needed to upgrade the distro, and then it was a nightmare.
<br><br>I never did get Debian to install, but I fell in love with Ubuntu Warty and have been an Ubuntu man ever since. I got myself off XP at home with Warty, and I moved my main workstation at work to Ubuntu with Dapper. We now run Ubuntu Dapper server at for a database and samba network. Our email is now a Dapper server (on the old Dell Red Hat hardware) with Zimbra.
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