I used UNIX all through the 1990s, first with AT&T UNIX, then Novell's then Solaris (both SPARC and x86). From time to time I'd look at Linux, and was always a

I used UNIX all through the 1990s, first with AT&T UNIX, then Novell's then Solaris (both SPARC and x86). From time to time I'd look at Linux, and was always astonished at how fast it was developing, though it was always a 'second OS' that I'd put on laptops or whatever. Around 1997-2000, it was not much different from the Solaris I was using, but I remained with Solaris as my main OS. In 2001, I had a problem with Solaris and my new x86 desktop machine, so I put Linux on it. I haven't used any other OS but Linux as my everyday OS since then. I have wandered around the distros, however. Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, Mint were the main ones. If I had my druthers it would be Slackware combined with the Debian/Mint apt software package system.