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Red Hat 5.0, 1998.
Had to get it on a CD as it would have taken 37.5 years to download according to Internet Explorer.
Kernel 2.0.36 represent 🤘
I was RedHat 3 back in 1996. Not even sure how we got the CD but we all passed it around and were amazed.
5.2 for me. I got it as a gift, in a offical retail box. I think the box with manuals is still around somewhere, but I'm not sure where.