I ran the distributed.net client for a couple of projects because I wanted to help them out. In July 1998 I was still running Windows 3.1 (true story!). Distributed.net didn't have a client for Windows 3.1, I still didn't have Win9x, and their DOS client, well, was unitasking, like DOS. I couldn't enjoy my PC and help them out too. I repartitioned hard drive space and started dual-booting with Caldera 1.2 (kernel 2.0.33).

Ran on a AMD K5-166, 96 or 128 MB RAM. Task switching was so much smoother than Windows (preemptive instead of cooperative multitasking, IIRC). I was hooked!

Today I spend 95% of my time in Linux (and 5% in XP).

<quote><p>I fully expect the next one to revolve around whether or not yo momma is so fat, and how fat she is.</p></quote>

My momma may be fat, but your momma wears COMBAT BOOTS!

(Never figured out why that was supposed to be in insult back in the day, but somebody was bound to say it eventually.)