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Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don't mean RHEL.
Hah, same/similar release as me
family had dialup at the time, but I found "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x" (with included CD) at a garage sale.
I think I got that one; back then you could order cheap CDs of a bunch of different distributions from third-party vendors because most people didn't have broadband. Depressingly, it seems the firm I used (CheapBytes out of California) is gone now.
I had used Slackware before that since my 'learn you linux' book came with a Slackware disc set. I recall it being frustrating because I had actually bought WordPerfect for Linux, a libc5 product, and it didn't work right with the new glibc universe.
Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love... 😃