I was using a BBS back around 1992 called Part Time BBS and saw a new entry there called 'Linux'. I ignored it for a few days, then thought I would download it and see what it was. Linux was broken down into a bunch of floppy disk size images, supplied by a distro called SLS (Soft Landing Systems). Part Time BBS had a download limit, so I was able to download a couple of images a day, and needed to do that for a week or so before I had enough pieces to boot up a system. Once I started I was committed to getting all the pieces. I did that, running command line for a while, then started playing with X based apps. By 1995, I decided to only run Linux at home and currently have six full time Linux boxes running (personal desktop, wife's desktop, web server, mythtv, ...), and sometimes a laptop. Unfortunately, my current job is Windows based, but I've snuck in a couple of CentOS boxes and are doing an Oracle conversion for a customer that runs on Linux. Jim