Yeah, I started with Mandrake 7.2. Well, actually I installed several distros for about a year, little less, before that, but always went on back to windows. But mandrake was easy enough for a tickerer like me, even tho that was still 2.2 kernel and not much was autodetected. I'm glad I stayed when I did cuz mandrake started doing everything for the user starting at about 8.2 or so. On a fresh install now, the user has to configure very little. But I'm a commandline junkie. I never used mandrakes utilities to configure stuff past the install, mainly cuz they didn't work when I started using it, <teehee>, and I use bash for my filemanager, that kinda thing. So, I am sorta a little accomplished. Not guru, but comfortable with any linux distro except debian (didn't like it much).
Geeze, I can barely remember when I started using linux... I was like 13 or 14 and a friend handed my a set of Debian 0.99 diskettes ;) I remember installing it and booting the first time and getting a shell prompt and thinking "WTF do i do now?". Took me weeks to get X to work! not to mention trying to get ppp to work. Thank you for the oppurtunity to reminisce... those were the good ol days.
Aaron
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