Recently I've been trying to remember the name of the first distro I ever used, and no searching has turned up anything yet. I even found a distro 'family tree' that covered the period but I didn't see anything that rang any bells. I suspect it starts with a 'c' or a 'p' but I'm likely wrong, though I'm pretty sure it ended with an 'x'.The mascot/logo on the front was of a green circular character, dressed up like a Roman Centurion, and I believe the CD case cover, one of the double-width jewel case styles, was a dark red colour.This was a distro that came on a 2-3 CDs somewhere around '96-'98... It was definitely pre 2.4, and possibly pre 2.2.I know it was release before BeOS R5 Pro (released 2000).
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The CD set you're thinking of were the Infomagic Linux Developer CDs.  Infomagic was a company that sold many different CD sets (BSD, Linux, DOS, etc).  The Linux ones typically had 4 or more disks and would contain a few distributions (eg Debian, RedHat, Slackware) plus a lot of source code include XFree86 and so on.There were two variations for Linux that had the red background.  There was a 5 CD set with There was also a 6 CD set with I installed RedHat 4.1 back in the mid 90s from an Infomagic set :-)