Red Hat Linux

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1996)

(distinct from RHEL and Fedora)

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nnrcschmdt

carljm

Uche

nimasmi

jeffself

ashugg

daks

PaulM

gklein

enki

mgrbyte

ntoll

eykd

mfandreas

adamv

speedy

jcarbaugh

brianwisti

fdrake

spookylukey

nsmgr8

codewritinfool

RossP

davidpaccoud

shywolf9982

jeremybowers

stephen_mcd

larry

Josh

CerealBoy

otherchirps

brousch

cstejerean

bocke

bitprophet

Kanru

joalcorn

louisr

floyd

nnrcschmdt - 7 years

carljm - 9 years

Uche - 7 years

nimasmi - 7 years

jeffself - 5 years

ashugg - 5 years

daks - 5 years

PaulM - 3 years

gklein - 28 years

enki - 8 years

mgrbyte - 3 years

ntoll - 3 years

eykd - 6 years

mfandreas - 4 years

adamv - 3 years

speedy - 6 years

jcarbaugh - 4 years

brianwisti - 8 years

fdrake - 5 years

spookylukey - 27 years

nsmgr8 - 2 years

codewritinfool - 5 years

RossP - 7 years

davidpaccoud - 4 years

shywolf9982 - 4 years

jeremybowers - 26 years

stephen_mcd - 1 years

larry - 2 years

Josh - 5 years

CerealBoy - 6 years

otherchirps - 3 years

brousch - 4 years

cstejerean - 2 years

bocke - 3 years

bitprophet - 1 years

Kanru - 23 years

joalcorn - 21 years

louisr - 2 years

floyd - 19 years

nnrcschmdt

1996–2002

jeffself

1997–2001

First distro I used. Got fed up with RPM packaging and found Debian in 2001.

ashugg

1997–2001

Helped maintain other people's RHL systems during this time. Never owned a RHL box though.

enki

1997–2004

carljm

1997–2005

My first introduction to Linux. Switched away when RH9 got end-of-lifed. Don't regret it. Don't particularly miss it either.

1997–2003

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1997–1999

1997–2001

1997–2003

The linux installed on university machines.

speedy

1998–2003

Worst Linux distribution I have ever used

ntoll

1998–2000

I think I started with RedHat 5.0 then moved to 5.1. Have dipped into Fedora since but remain a Debian guy ;-)

mfandreas

1998–2001

jcarbaugh

1998–2001

Never really used Red Hat for any serious purpose, just installed it on a bunch of machines for the heck of it.

adamv

1998–2000

Used for a while at home, while I was working at Microsoft no less.

1998–2005

1998–2002

1998–2003

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1998–2000

1999

Was the first Linux distro I ever installed. Didn't stick with it for long.

davidpaccoud

1999–2002

My first Linux distribution.

nsmgr8

1999–2000

shywolf9982

1999–2002

First Linux I had. Was a good way to begin.

RossP

1999–2005

jeremybowers

1999–

Started with it, went to Debian/Ubuntu in the middle, then came full circle with CentOS on our production Web servers at the Post.

1999–2000

1999–2003

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2000–2004

2000–2002

2001

Brief dalliance personally: first OS installed on my Linux test box. Was rooted literally overnight while plugged into UMass campus network. Wiped, replaced with Debian. This is an apt analogy for my attitude towards the two distro families since. Also used professionally for a short while -- was used as the file server for sharing a VB5/6 binary with a Windows network. No, it didn't make sense to me either, even at the time.

2001–2002

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2006–2007