It would be fun to see the statistics 
I’m referring to Linux in general, but I assume most of us are openSUSE users, so… shoot the breeze!
about 14 years…since about '98 along with OS/2 as the daily work
horse…i used Linux more and more (with an admin book to guide) until
about '02 when i booted OS/2 the last time (to go on the net to learn
what i had screwed up in Red Hat that time)…
last tied to Windows in '95.
–
DD
Read what Distro Watch writes: http://tinyurl.com/SUSEonDW
About 14 to 15 years as well. IIRC from SuSE 6. Ditched win completely in 2001, have it now (for customer support) but don’t use it. Used every single release of SuSE/openSUSE since I started. “Tasted” lots of other distros, “real” installs as well as virtual.
The first install was SuSE Linux Personal 8.2 in June 2003
Never looked back since and have gone through every upgrade.
Windows was evicted from my machines in 2006.
I first used Linux in 2005 and started with SUSE Linux 10.0 that same year and even purchased a consumer copy of SUSE Linux 10.1, but then I kind of stopped using it for a while. I got back in around openSUSE 11.0 when I purchased my next retail copy. Even though seven years has went by, I have been using it five years out of that total. And of course I got real serious using it just over 18 months ago when I started using the openSUSE forums every day. So, I voted in the 3-5 year category even though its been technically seven years.
Thank You,
about 1/5 years. started with UBUNTU and then LinuxMint and now openSUSE.
First install (S.u.S.E. Linux Paket) was in spring 1995. So almost 17 years now, but there was a break of 2-3 years from around 1997 to 1999 where I did not use Linux at all so the net usage is about 14-15 years. Then I tested several distros around 1999 and came back to SuSE with 6.4 in 2000 and stayed with SuSE (later openSUSE) till today sometimes looking at other distros also to see what they are about or because I install something special where a different distro has benefits.
Since I first learned about it in school in 2001. First install was Red Hat, 9 dual booted with Windows 2000. I don’t recall when I discovered openSUSE, or completely wiped out Windows and became Linux only. Never look at or am interested in other distros.
On 05.02.2012 02:56, riderplus wrote:
>
> It would be fun to see the statistics I’m referring to Linux in
> general, but I assume most of us are openSUSE users, so… shoot the
> breeze!
>
>
Well, i started with Linux in 95-96 but did not last at that time. It
was very cumbersome to get a system running with dial-up. At least in my
case.
So i left it and went on with Windows for the rest of the time. Just
recently in 2009 i started to use Linux again.
I downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 and used it and it was fun to use. Later i
switched to openSUSE since this was the distribution i used in 95-96.
So far, i have still Windows but its more of a necessity to be able to
play sometimes some games where Linux still has problems. Not all games
run with Wine sadly.
Linux has come a long way and its visually there. Technically i can’t
say since i don’t understand the technical point. Software is much more
complicated than it was in 95 or be
–
Windows, supports nearly all software, hardware, and viruses.
Linux Counter: 548299 https://linuxcounter.net/
About 5 years but I can’t remember exactly does it really matter ?
Best regards,
Greg
I started with linux in 1995, using slackware. I first tried SuSE linux around 2003. I think that’s before opensuse was separated from enterprise suse.
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:56:02 +0000, riderplus wrote:
> It would be fun to see the statistics I’m referring to Linux in
> general, but I assume most of us are openSUSE users, so… shoot the
> breeze!
Started with RedHat 5.1 or 5.2 (I ran across the 5.1 CDs late last
year). I’d played with various other distributions, including Linux From
Scratch, but RH was really the first one I stuck with until I switched to
SUSE Pro back in 2003.
I guess that means about 14 years now.
Jim
–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
I’ve been using it now since 2006.
Wow! my 1st pc was a windows PC in 2004. I just realized it’s been about 5.5 years 4 of which have been with some form of Suse, from SuSe 10.2 to Opensuse12.1 that’s longer than I thought it’d been.
Red Hat 5.1 in 1998 was my introduction - and I never looked back.
First Suse verison was 7.0 in 2000. Never ran Suse 8 (was off on Mandrake for a while.) Then ran Suse 9 for a while. Since OpenSuse 10.something it has been the only distro I’ve run at home, and usually run it as my desktop system at work.
For servers it’s been mostly Red Hat / RHEL / CentOS with a dash of Debian / Ubuntu and Suse and a bit of BSD and Solaris - loved OpenSolaris.
It has been fun watching Linux evolve, and the future - for Linux and FOSS in general - looks fantastically bright.
Cheers,
Hey Jim, If you still have those CDs around and want a good chuckle, fire them up in VirtualBox and select “Red Neck” as the install language. Good times.
Cheers,
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:46:02 +0000, LewsTherinTelemon wrote:
> hendersj;2437713 Wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:56:02 +0000, riderplus wrote:
>>
>> Started with RedHat 5.1 or 5.2 (I ran across the 5.1 CDs late last
>> year).
>
> Hey Jim, If you still have those CDs around and want a good chuckle,
> fire them up in VirtualBox and select “Red Neck” as the install
> language. Good times.
I remember that - it was funny to see that in the selection list.
Jim
–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Like other’s on this thread, I started in the 1998/99 time frame with Red Hat (either 5.0 or 5.1). I switched to SuSE-Pro in late 2001. I’ve been with SuSE and then openSUSE since.
Someone gave me a couple of Mandrake CDs in about 2004 which got me going, but after trying Ubuntu as well, I bought into SUSE 9.3 in 2005 and have been with SUSE/openSUSE ever since. Have no desire to change.
Since about 1998 when I installed RH 6.2. I wanted a PC for university but couldn’t afford to buy one, so I built my own & got the resident linux geek from the library to help me install it
Never looked back.
Luckily my university was very linux friendly - all the computers ran linux. I do remember they had a default lilo boot image that reset the computer back to its prior state on reboot which was a pain because it didn’t have drivers for my iomega zip drive. I found my very first ‘hack’ there by pressing shift at the boot & selecting the normal kernel image thereby keeping the drivers I’d just installed. Yay for downloading mp3z
First dabbled with Linux in '98. Didn’t really get serious about getting rid of Windows until '04 though… when I retired and no longer had to support MS systems full time. (Even though MS still sent me copies of all their newest software at no cost I switched to Linux as soon as I was able. That says something about my opinion of Redmond doesn’t it?)
Personally I would find the poll more informative if it asked two separate questions:
- When did you first try LInux?
- How long has Linux been your primary OS?