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View Poll Results: When did you join Linux?
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1991
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1993
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5th April 2007, 06:41 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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When did you join Linux?
I don't mean to pressure you  , but this thread is important to me. Also, please round to the nearest year. For example, if you joined Linux right off the bat in 1992, please say 1993. But if you joined Linux in 2007, just say 2007.
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There's no such thing as a stupid computer...
...Just Widnows Vista. :rolleyes:
Note: I have FC5 with no Internet and a small 5G hard drive( :( )
I would prefer to have .rpm packages, but for simple stuff (like tutorials), .tar.gz type files are good.
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5th April 2007, 08:08 PM
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"Sean The Terrible" -- The forum(er) Vista® rep
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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ah, what do you mean "join?" I never got my membership card! Seriously, I started dabbling with RH8 in...oh...lets see...early 2003? I was a big time XP fanboy back then, knew Windows inside and out. I dabbled with RH8 for a while then about mid 2004 I started getting serious and trying many other distros. By June 2005 I had 12 distros multi-booted on my test box, was still using XP for business and gaming but getting bored and fed up and pissed off with it and decided I needed to find one good distro to learn. I walked into the bookstore with the SimplyMepis book and disc in mind but they were out. All they had was this Fedora 4 thing. Never heard of Fedora but a quick read in the store mentioned Red Hat and my mind drifted back to RH8 which I thought was one of the best distros I had yet used. Ahh, what the hell...The rest is history and recounted in numerous threads. Needless to say within 3 months my business stuff had moved to FC4 and XP was history. Well, it was toast at that point, I officially went "Windows free" Oct. 2006. But I hadnt used Windows at all in well over a year by then. Just updates and the occasional Ghost Recon session...So, I guess the answer you want is June 2005
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5th April 2007, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Ukraine
Posts: 381
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I don't use windows since the very end of 2004
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5th April 2007, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Oops...
Please disregard the part about it being important. I thought it was important, bu then it wasn't. I'm sorry. Oh, well...It's interesting anyway 
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There's no such thing as a stupid computer...
...Just Widnows Vista. :rolleyes:
Note: I have FC5 with no Internet and a small 5G hard drive( :( )
I would prefer to have .rpm packages, but for simple stuff (like tutorials), .tar.gz type files are good.
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6th April 2007, 04:06 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Marion, IA USA
Age: 39
Posts: 165
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I started using linux with RH 2.0 back in 1995. I can't believe it's been that long.
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6th April 2007, 04:15 AM
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In 2003, or so my memory tells me, I was dual booting Mandrake and eComStation 1.1. I don't think I went Linux all the way till the beginning of 2004.
Wayne
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6th April 2007, 04:22 AM
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Administrator (yeah, back again)
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Colton, NY; Junction of Heaven & Earth (also Routes 56 & 68).
Age: 67
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2003 for me too. SuSE in those days - worked fine, learned squat.
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Don't use any of my solutions on working computers or near small children.
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6th April 2007, 05:36 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Anaheim/Fullerton, CA (USA)
Age: 27
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2003, with FC1.
Since then I've tried Gentoo (spent about two years with it, learned a heck of a lot) and FreeBSD (an excellent server system, but felt weird as a desktop) and I continue to stick with my Fedora roots. 
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6th April 2007, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ft Huachuca, AZ
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Shhhhhhhhhh.....I didn't join but I still got the the decoder ring...2003
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6th April 2007, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Middle of Uk
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I started in 2006, messing around with SUSE and Ubuntu... never got very far. Gave up most of the time. Then I gave it another go about a month ago with Fedora. Now I prefer it to Windows. All my mates use Vista, theres me with Fedora. Wooop!
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-Windows free since May 2007.
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6th April 2007, 01:41 PM
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Still Nothing
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Dallas, Texas
Age: 41
Posts: 684
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1999 with a copy of yellow dog ppc installed via ftp over an isdn line to a mac laptop. Andyes, it did take all weekend to download and configure. Many distros since then, suse, mandrake (when it was still cool), RH7 something, mandriva, back to Fedora and I've been here ever since.
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You can call me Bill
Registered Linux user: 435641
1 F?? workstation, 1 XBMC PVR and two Win7 workstations.
Too many other pc's - some that are even still running.
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6th April 2007, 05:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Age: 55
Posts: 3,996
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Yup I dabbled a bit till 2003-2004 when I began to run it full time...
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Fedora 16, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, Windows 7
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6th April 2007, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 22
Posts: 9,224
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2003-ish when RH9 came out, apart from games I've rid myself of Windows for 2-3 years now. What amazes me the most of the progress Linux has made in those short few years. I can remember a little what RH9 was like, but a while back I installed FC1 and the difference is astounding. I can't wait to see what happens in the next few years.
Firewing1
Last edited by Firewing1; 6th April 2007 at 06:06 PM.
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6th April 2007, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: EU, Germany
Age: 39
Posts: 1,185
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Seee my signature.
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6th April 2007, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: MidWest
Age: 62
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1999 seems so LONG ago.
1999 with a Red Hat CD I bought from the discount rack at Wal-Mart, believe it or not. Ah, good times, good times.
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