Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

 SH> This will be the first year the laptop has had a linux distro
 SH> installed as it's default boot.
MK> For me that was Slackware 3.something on a pentium1 Acer laptop back
MK> around 1997-ish.  I had fun with it.  No DVDs back then but it did
MK> have a CD-ROM that was bootable.

  Not my first *nix based box by a long haul.  That would have been in 1995
when I converted my 14 line BBS into an ISP.

  This is the first time my wife will be using a linux desktop to play dvd's
on.  Fingers are crossed she doesn't notice the difference. ;) haha

Shawn
... If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
---