8.04.1 "Hardy Heron"

Granted this is the first time I've installed it in under 30 minutes, and my network worked instantly. When I first got into it, I managed to get debian, redhat, slackware, and a few other distros installed relatively quickly, always running into troubles with getting the network up, but nothing mind boggling. Finally settled on Debian, and finally gave it up when I realized there were still too many things I had to jump back into Windows to do.

I think the thing I liked about it back then though was how much I learned just trying to get things to work haha... honestly, it was old school but it drove RTFM home.
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