blogs.computerworld.com— At the recently concluded Linux Foundation Summit in San Francisco, some Foundation staffers asked several people when they started with Linux, which lead me to the same question.
Apr 11, 2009View in Crawl 4
About the same for me (aka when I was 17, now I'm 20). I started with 6.06 Ubuntu because I had heard a lot about it and wanted to bring some life into some old machines of mine. I played around with a lot of different distros but just stuck with ubuntu because it was the easiest. I now dual boot and the art school I go to has ubuntu x64 on all of the computers (dual booted with xp). It's great. I love seeing open software on computers now.
latinjonesApr 12, 2009
I think about 8 years ago when Mandriva was Mandrake. Is it still Mandriva?
flammenwurferApr 13, 2009
10 years ago, Mandrake.
commyostrichApr 15, 2009
About the same for me (aka when I was 17, now I'm 20). I started with 6.06 Ubuntu because I had heard a lot about it and wanted to bring some life into some old machines of mine. I played around with a lot of different distros but just stuck with ubuntu because it was the easiest. I now dual boot and the art school I go to has ubuntu x64 on all of the computers (dual booted with xp). It's great. I love seeing open software on computers now.
bhuntsbargerApr 15, 2009
I sent Linus Torvalds to the store when he was 5 to get me some milk! That was the first time I got use out of Linux.
bdbelysianApr 21, 2009
1997, SUSE 5.0
quantumavatarApr 30, 2009
better late than never