I was introduced to Linux in the 90s, right about the time I was about to buy a copy of Mark Williams Coherent (a Unix clone). The Linux techies at the University installed SLS for me. It had kernel 0.99.6, After a few months I blew away the dual boot setup and installed Slackware. I’ve been working in IT ever since, and have been using Linux at home and at work. Currently managing RHEL servers in the cloud at my day job, using mostly Debian otherwise.