hmm the first time I played around with Linux, It was when I was having my first PC computer... (not the tape ones that I had earlier)

I must have been 11/12years old, that's ten years ago. I learn everything on my own, as nobody was having a computer in my friends in france I discovered that you had to create folders (on my 40Mo HDD and 2Mo Ram / 386 SX 20 with the Turbo 33 lol) months after... Then I had all my games and small app on the C:\

But Linux, it was much more later I think when I had a 486 or pehaps even a pentium! lol It must be around 1994/1996, when I started to go on the Internet... then let say around 7-9 years, but I never manage to connect the Internet through Linux it was too hard to configure!!!!
After that my studies took me too much time and I stop playing with computers or should I say, with development etc..
But now, I'm bored of MS, then I'm thinking of putting all my stuff under Linux, even perhaps the iPAQ...

And a last thing! I have been AMAZED by the autodetection of the hardware by Knoppix... I was not even thinking Linux could be so easy... Ok, but after there are lots of stuff that are a bit hard (or that you have to learn... it takes a bit of time.. to get used to)

Regards,
Ludo

N.B.: My use of Linux at this period was really really basic.. not much things only perhaps trying to hack some stuff...