This was my very first Linux distribution! My dad picked bought a copy of the Deluxe edition on a whim, an actual shrink-wrapped physical box of software. It ha

This was my very first Linux distribution! My dad picked bought a copy of the Deluxe edition on a whim, an actual shrink-wrapped physical box of software. It had a cute penguin logo and had lots of nice software included. We installed it on a Pentium II and used it mainly to author and print WordPerfect documents. It was surprisingly usable - we were familiar with DOS and Win95 but we knew literally nothing about Linux. Yet we got by with minimal trouble. More importantly it opened the doors to experimenting with open source operating systems and hardware... I was hooked. I quickly switched to Red Hat then to Slackware then to BSD and Debian - better systems for sure. But Corel Linux had a certain cohesion and out-of-the-box usefulness that made it feel friendly.