[katet]

I was born 17.09.1990, exactly a year off. I grew up with Linux and am eternally grateful to the "scene" surrounding the magazine CDs with - I don't know - like 17 distros packed in together and endless tutorials on each of them.

It's also amusing how many people - my age or so - use Ubuntu as a daily driver these days that never went through the pain of configuring LILO or Broadcom drivers from source in Slackware ;)

[mseidl]

I started using Linux in around 94/95. I heard some people say how cool Linux was. So after numerous attempts I got it installed and was booted to a command prompt and asked "What the fuck is so cool about this?"

I would turn out to be love at first sight. I've been using Linux since and I've been working at SUSE for 10 years this Fall.

[Wistar]

I remember going to a Linux meetup in downtown Seattle in about the spring of 1993. I was surprised at the large number who attended, probably a couple hundred.

[mseidl]

That's pretty awesome.

[danudey]

> the pain of configuring LILO

LI

[basementcat]

I once made a patched LILO that would print LOL instead of LIL when the second stage bootloader barfed.

[jbuzbee]

Yeah - I recall that the number of characters printed would tell you where it failed.

[nuxi]

Thank you, this just made my day. :)

[abawany]

Don't forget xf86config and other X11 fun to make it work with monitors, before peoples shared settings for popular models.

[jbuzbee]

Yeah - And I bet you also remember those warnings about configuring your monitor wrong could physically destroy it. Fun times! :-)