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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.
redhat 6 here.
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.
I remember those distro CDs that came with the books! They were always like "Learn Linux in Minutes! Included OS software!"
Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love... 😃