Great read. My first Linux distro was, I think, Slackware, around kernel version 2.2 - 2.4. I played with a _lot_ of distros; I think Sorcerer was the most esot

Great read. My first Linux distro was, I think, Slackware, around kernel version 2.2 - 2.4. I played with a _lot_ of distros; I think Sorcerer was the most esoteric. I settled on Gentoo, as one does, and spent more time compiling / breaking / fixing than I did using anything. I eventually valued stability over bleeding-edge, and have happily been using Debian ever since.