Redhat 4 or 5 I think from the cover CD of a magazine. Kernel 1.2.13, although the first thing you did in those days was to make config and recompile as modules were not a thing then. Makes me wonder how we found time to do anything productive really, between finding good enough hardware that Linux wouldn't balk and reading HOWTOs and fiddling with config files.
Took a diversion into OpenBSD for a few years (if you thought liveCDs were cool back then, running clustered firewalls in RAM from an immutable floppy disk blew my employer's mind) but Linux dragged me back once Sun imploded and haven't looked back.
Took a diversion into OpenBSD for a few years (if you thought liveCDs were cool back then, running clustered firewalls in RAM from an immutable floppy disk blew my employer's mind) but Linux dragged me back once Sun imploded and haven't looked back.