12-Year old kid, Entering the linux world

Back at the tender age of 12 I picked up a magazine at the Base Exchange. This magazine contained a CD. This CD contained Debian 1.3. All was well in the world…

I remember reading with such excitement about this amazing new Linux (yes I pronouced it wrong, I was a geek living in Germany) and how it was free. Free you say!? I had just spent the past year lusting for Windows NT for no other reason that it was enterprise ready. I had no clue what that meant but I knew it was something I couldn’t learn. Much in the same way as I would look with much glee on the SGI pictures in magazines with no hope of ever affording the 12,000 dollar machine. Such was life for a youngster

Read the story here

BTW Thats a 1997 story.

Do have a look at your first OS in a virtual machine to bring back those memories

P.S: I traced that story out from the DistroWatch newsletter

^Ah, I remember those days.

The Fateful day was in the summer of 2004.
There I was , with a copy of Vector Linux,
that said something on the lines of
"There's no goin back , once you press enter, are you sure ?" ,
I wasnt sure, but hell, i wasnt going back and was ready to format the whole disk if needed

After about two failed attempts at partitioning, i managed to get it installed.
Just to get stuck at good'ol xdm

Wonder what I would be using if I hadnt bought digit with that iso of Vector?