First time I got in touch with *NIX was with FreeBSD back in 1995, when it was featured in a PC magazine (I do not remember which one it was). Back then I was young and just attracted by the idea of a different OS, other then Windows 3.11/DOS. But you can imagine that - as a Windows 3.11 user - it was something I couldn't possibly understand nor use.
1997 - 1999
In 1997 I got in touch with Corel Linux, tried it on my PC but still didn't got the idea about incompatibility between Microsoft products and Linux, so I dumped it fast as I couldn't do anything with it. And while in my civil service, a student showed me SuSE Linux on his PC; but my previous experience with Corel Linux kept me on distance.
2000 - 2003
Back in 1999 I got an old IBM laptop and had already 2 PCs with Windows installed. And I had a RedHat Distribution on hand, so I gave Linux another try.
I liked it, and - as I wasn't depending on my laptop as my sole PC - kept it installed. I got in touch with other Linux users on IRC and at this time (like it is still the case today), working in the console was cool.
After some weeks I replaced RedHat with Slackware, because I wanted something "hard" to work with. I managed to get wireless and sound working on my old laptop. The console was my home for a long time, with ncurses there were so many applications perfectly running in it. The same time, when I worked with a fellow webdesigner, we used a SuSE Linux server. I liked very much Yast to keep control over the system.
To keep trying something different, in 2002 I replaced on one of my PCs Windows with BeOS (not quiet a *NIX). It was a nice OS, but unfortunately without a future.
2005 - present
As my life got a bit turbulent in 2004, I did not have any PC until 2005 when I bought a Toshiba Laptop. And at first I started with Fedora. And as usual, I couldn't stay with it and wanted again something different, and so I found Ubuntu.
It should be the beginning of a long relation as my favourite Linux distribution.
Over the last couple of years I tried other OS as well, like MirOS and other BSD derivatives, Solaris, Darwin and countless Linux distributions (thank you dual-boot and VirtualBox).
On the server-side I used for about a year Gentoo, but changed afterwards to Ubuntu Server, because that way I have the same tool-set as on my workstation (
Since I work as a developer for Sudimage (4 years now), I only used the KDE-based Kubuntu, but recently i switched to Ubuntu with Gnome.
Future
Now I keep a closer look on the Elementary OS as my future OS.
Not yet
What I never tried yet (but what I wish to do as soon as possible):
- Debian
- Arch
- DragonFly BSD
- CentOS (as server OS)
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