RHLC May Challenge: What is the first open source product you discovered?

[Deanna]

We will be hosting a monthly challenge where community members who engage and contribute have the chance to win unique badges in the Red Hat Learning Community!

March challenge: Reply to this thread with the the first open source product you discovered. Feel free to share how this discovery has impacted your career and interest in open source software!

Good luck.

[EmanuelHaine · Accepted solution]

In my case, it was Linux, where a friend of mine presented to me and he convinced me to uninstall my Windows and install Linux. Since then, I've been using Linux. For the first 6 years, I was acting on a user level and after that, I started to work as a Linux Analyst.

[lauriano]

In my case it was Ubuntu,
after i got a browser hijacking virus,
a friend of mine recommended me to use some gnu-linux system, I just abandoned windows.

[DavidOBrien]

Linux, specifically Mandrake. We were mostly a Windows shop but I was mates with the sysadmin who did everything on Linux, and he got me set up with Mandrake in a VM on my Windows machine. I soon switched over to Linux at home and by the time I joined RH in 2006 I knew my around pretty well.