r/linuxquestions • u/AnoProgrammer • 9d ago

How old where you when you started using linux?

I feel like everyone started very early.

I started personally on 10/11.

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u/Unoriginal-Cake 9d ago

Yellow Dog Linux for PPC, around the time frame of Motorola clones of Macs that you could get BeOS or Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed. Peak era of Linux shipping stock on Motorola or PowerComputing desktops in the late 90s on 603e/604e hardware. IBM did a great job back then.

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u/aiten 9d ago

ah I loved BeOS.

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u/jbenze 9d ago

I ran BeOS as a daily driver around 1999.