Yup, I remember the excitation after buying a debian distro and receiving a ton of CDs by mail with the freshly released Debian Woody. It was defiant to raise X and noticed soon that had bought an accelerated intensive training in computers. Lots of esotheric things that would fail sometimes and many new concepts: Lilo, partitions, fdisk, no internet connection everywhere and hoarding deb packages in pendrives.

It came with a wonderful sense of adventure, defy and a chain of personal victories and achievement that would be not possible to experience currently by newer generations. Very well spent time in retrospective. Sometimes, is good to be a ram-level stubborn