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I’m familiar with the distros, thanks. I started with Slackware in 1995 with the 1.1 kernel and have had systems running Red Hat, Suse, and Debian. I killed my last Linux machine a couple of years ago when I had to clean up a little clutter. I had an old Pentium II system running Red Hat for a firewall for about 10 years. It had two old 3 GB full height SCSI-2 drives that weighed about 10 lbs each and sounded like jet engines! The cooling system that I wired up was a work of art! But after being in the Navy and moving around the country so often, it was just a little too much dead weight.

I have been playing with Linux since May 1995. I ran it on a 486DX33 with 32 MB of memory. At the time, sound didn't work and a few months later, I got SLIP dial-up to work. Almost all of my Internet was done on my P90 with Win 3.11 WFW. One nice thing about the Internet in 1995/1996, marketers have not had much of a chance to spoil it unlike today with pop-up and pop-under ads, corporate web sites that are a pain in the @$$ to navigate around especially trying to get technical information.

Today, I play with Linux on the x86 as well as SPARC and MacIntosh platforms. I also have played with FreeBSD, OpenBSD as well. Linux does much more for me today. I play DVD's on Ogle and Xine and this includes Region 2 DVD's (Japanese Anime) as well.