Comment by holistio

Back in 2005-2006 (I was 14-15), I've been going through a bunch of open source operating systems. I started with Ubuntu, tried Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE (this was all before Mandriva, Fedora or openSUSE became mainstream), did LFS (Linux From Scratch), and eventually ran stuff like NetBSD and OpenBSD on desktop as well.

Playing around with Gentoo is a distinct memory: downloading the two CD images too two nights on my connection at the time. Compiling everything felt like I knew way more about computing than I did. I felt smart, powerful and in some sense, an outlaw.

It had a profound impact on the fact that I still work with software, many years later.

Thanks to everyone involved.