So now that I'm not on my phone I can try to reconstruct my Linux / UNIX history.
SCO Xenix / Unix (~1988) - remember bang-path addressing for email? I do.
Minux (around the same time period)
1993 - first started using Slackware Linux
1994 - switched to FreeBSD 2.0 as a server OS due to some shortcomings in Linux at the time
~1997-1998 - back to Red Hat Linux
~2003 Fedora Linux
~2005-2008 Gentoo Linux
Around 2009 I started using Ubuntu, but they lost me several years ago with the Unity crap (which I despise). Been using Mint for desktops since, and the server version of Ubuntu.
In between the above, I've probably installed every major distro for evaluation.
There was a brief time when I rolled my own distro from source (but abandoned it as impractical), and experimented with a custom boot chain that supported full-disk encryption before it could be done out-of-the-box. Now it's easy.
These days, I use Ubuntu LTS Server releases and FreeBSD for servers, and Mint for desktop. Work uses RedHat Enterprise and Oracle's version of Red Hat.
SCO Xenix / Unix (~1988) - remember bang-path addressing for email? I do.
Minux (around the same time period)
1993 - first started using Slackware Linux
1994 - switched to FreeBSD 2.0 as a server OS due to some shortcomings in Linux at the time
~1997-1998 - back to Red Hat Linux
~2003 Fedora Linux
~2005-2008 Gentoo Linux
Around 2009 I started using Ubuntu, but they lost me several years ago with the Unity crap (which I despise). Been using Mint for desktops since, and the server version of Ubuntu.
In between the above, I've probably installed every major distro for evaluation.
There was a brief time when I rolled my own distro from source (but abandoned it as impractical), and experimented with a custom boot chain that supported full-disk encryption before it could be done out-of-the-box. Now it's easy.
These days, I use Ubuntu LTS Server releases and FreeBSD for servers, and Mint for desktop. Work uses RedHat Enterprise and Oracle's version of Red Hat.
