Just upgraded my workstation and laptop to
Fedora 29.
I had to remove some deprecated packages though, to start the upgrade. This is good, it's amazing how much cruft builds up over the years of upgrades as opposed performing fresh installs.
Slackware was the first Linux I installed, in the early 90s. I used it because my
386 wasn't powerful enough to run
BSD and besides, AT&T were expected to win their
litigation against Berkeley and then kill it.
(As an aside, the world would be a very different place if AT&T hadn't launched that court case, even though they eventually lost it. I think the
GNU project and the
Copyleft principles of the
GPL wouldn't be anywhere near as prevalent if it hadn't occurred.)
Slackware had to be compiled from source which took a very long time. Around 1996 I moved across to
Redhat and the wonders of pre-compiled binaries and package management, Redhat
version 3 or thereabouts.
By 2003 Redhat had reached
version 9 and pushed the workstation version out of their mainline to focus on servers. In response to the massive backlash from the
F/OSS community they founded Fedora as an unsupported upstream community project.
I've been using Fedora ever since. I've installed every version except for a couple, around
versions 17 and 18. It's crazy to look back and realise I've been using Fedora for fifteen years and the Redhat family of distributions for 22.
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