After I lost my Fedora Core 3 CDs due to poor storage, I started hunting for places to get a replacement. Somehow, nobody in my immediate vicinity even knew anything about linux. I had a few LiveCD ISO’s on hard disk (SuSE 9.2 Live, DSL, SLAX 5.0, Mandrake Live, Tomsrtbt, etc), but using them made me feel somehow crippled. I needed a fully fledged distro i could install, with GCC, Wine, KDE, XMMS, video codecs, full suite of network tools, and drivers for my Wireless LAN Card (i hate having to compile drivers if i can avoid it). Asking around was fruitless - people were like “Linux? huh? what’s that?” And my poor shared 64Kbps connection could not download the 5 FC3 ISO’s. What a shame. I was strolling the corridors of Nairaland When i noticed that someone mentioned that there was a company, www.canonical.com, that was shipping Linux CDs for free, to anywhere in the world. The distro name? Ubuntu Linux.