[_joel]

This and doing stage 0 Gentoo install, which subsequently broke in interesting ways on running emerge. Fixing that was probably what got me enough 'real world' skill to be able to do it for a living.. 20 years later, here we are. Still grateful for the ricing :)

[bombcar]

Gentoo was what finally make me understand what LILO was doing, and how GRUB worked, and why it was better.