The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System

[pokerfan]

Linux is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To commemorate, the Linux Foundation created an infographic that highlights events in the past 20-years from the open-source movement. its also launching a video contest that will be judged by Linux founder Linus Torvalds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ocq6_3-nEw

[struggle4progress]

1. cool!

[Occulus]

2. My first linux was RedHat 3.0.

Lots of blood spilled in that effort.

Good God, that was hard to configure.

[pokerfan]

3. I played with RedHat back in the day

but eventually gave up. Ubuntu is what sold it for me.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Mine was a Slackware version whose number I don't remember.

CD came in a book, so it was probably already outdated when I first installed it. It was 1997. I do remember the kernel version -- 2.0.27.

[madokie]

4. I tried several different flavors

kinda liked pclinux but it was Ubuntu that done if for me. I've been using ubuntu for over a year now and see no reason to ever go back to microshaft for anything. Once I got AutoCad working I knew I'd never go back to billyboy gates and his unamerican ways.
I really do need to send the ubuntu team some money, after all I spent over a thousand bucks with microshaft starting with dos 3.1

[JCMach1]

6. My first Linux was Caldera OpenLinux around '97 or '98

Was one of the first user-friendly installations...

[phasma ex machina]

7. Slackware Version 2.1, released in October 1994, was my first

With J.R. Bob Dobbs on the CDs instead of Tux.