Same for me. Slackware (I guess 4.0) and E16 was my first proper Linux installation. Learned so much during that time.

Same for me. He definitely contributed to my fondness and wonder of Linux back then.

SuSE 5.1 for me, as it was what I could easily get the CD-ROMs for, as bandwidth was just a single 64k ISDN at school.

Yeah that was the reason for me too, in order to get the distro CD ROMS I had to mail $10 to some random address and wait 4 weeks for them to be mailed back!

I tell people you used to have to post a cheque when you bought stuff online and they just look at me like I’m nuts. It was basically just mail order, but on the web.