I was like this, always messing around with Windows 95, 2000, XP. Before that I "hacked" autoexe.bat on Dos. Then, in University (2003-ish?) a friend gave me a set of Mandrake CDs. A new world opened up, sleepless nights, Slackware, Gentoo, compiling Kernels, setting up my first Webserver, bricking the family modem to try to show it to friends (who somehow didn't see it on the address I sent them (192.168.1.2 or something ;)).