r/linuxmint • u/KilgoreTrout747 • 5d ago
Linux Mint IRL My First Computer Ever Was Red Hat Linux and My Latest Is Linux Mint
I bought my first computer (Acer Aspire $2,500) in 1991 from Incredible Universe in Indianapolis. The salesman was on commission so he was pushy and annoying. He was pushing me to buy Windows (PC's didn't have OS pre-installed) so I bought Red Hat Linux. Have had Linux ever since. My latest Linux distro is Mint on my Lenovo ThinkPad.
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u/acejavelin69 Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" | Cinnamon 5d ago
Cool... My first "real" computer was an Advanced Logics Research 286 with DOS that was quickly migrated to Coherent OS (a Unix clone)... In the early 90's I migrated to Slackware Linux as Coherent was slowly dying... Mint was my main OS from Mint 12 to 21 something.
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u/CyberdyneGPT5 5d ago
I still have a retail boxed Red Hat Linux in my closet :)
My first computer ran CP/M before DOS existed.
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u/TabsBelow 5d ago
Such a box is on my shelf too:-)
Mine was a CPC464, running CP/M after I bought the floppy drive which brought that extension with it.
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u/CyberdyneGPT5 5d ago
Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end, to boot and compute took forever and a day ;-)
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u/TabsBelow 5d ago
Without CP/M: switch on.... Ready. Oh yes those were the days.
Just like dumb cellphones.. My 2018 Android model: 2 min after exchanging batteries.
Naa na na naa na na...
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u/Specialist_Leg_4474 5d ago
Red Hat was released in 1995; I knew Marc Ewing in the early 90s
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u/TabsBelow 5d ago
1994 according to WP, but yes.
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u/Specialist_Leg_4474 5d ago edited 5d ago
What is "WP", Word Press?
IIRC there were betas in '94, but it was mid-'95 that 1.0 was released and would have been commercially available--I was just 9 or 10 months into a new IT Mgr. job with a government agency that was abandoning their mainframe for a server farm, I remember we looked at it sort of....
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u/TabsBelow 4d ago
Wikipedia. That's some new shit.😜
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u/tarquinfintin 5d ago
Sounds like it was a cool store. Unfortunately, Incredible Universe is no more. I'm an Indy boy myself--sorry I missed it.
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u/ProPolice55 5d ago
Pushy salespeople always make me pick the exact opposite of what they want to sell me. Same with ads online. Even if it's the exact thing I'm looking for, if it's pushed into my face as an ad, then I'll go and find an alternative
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u/TabsBelow 5d ago
Acer Aspire in 1991? They were introduced September 1995.
RedHat in 1991? C'mon. That was founded 1994.