A couple years after this, you could buy a Redhat CD off the shelf at Best Buy, and if you had popular or generic hardware, it would pretty much install. And a

A couple years after this, you could buy a Redhat CD off the shelf at Best Buy, and if you had popular or generic hardware, it would pretty much install. And a few years after that, Mandrake or Corel Linux booted from a CD and had great graphics and everything. By the time I got back to Debian, it was for servers. Netinstalls were compact and awesome! And then Ubuntu came out and blew everyone's mind, how complete it was installed just off the CD. Even the idiots could install it then.