11 at the time here. For me it would be another 10 years or so before I saw a Solaris box or even knew what one was. I did encounter, and try, Linux much soone

11 at the time here. For me it would be another 10 years or so before I saw a Solaris box or even knew what one was. I did encounter, and try, Linux much sooner. But didn’t really “get it” either at the time. Like, I understood that it was neat and different. I installed Mandriva Linux on my machine when I was 13 or 14 or so, but I was lacking any books or guidance to understand how to do anything aside from opening the GUI programs that was on it. It would take all until the age of 18, when I started at the university, before I got the help I needed in order to understand Linux and editing config files on Linux and writing my own scripts and programs on Linux.