Time when I switched to GNU/Linux

I cannot remember when I exactly decided to switched to GNU/Linux.

I know I had made my first steps in the Free World with Mandrake (now Mandriva) in 2000/2001, then have used Red Hat (before the split Red Hat/Fedora), and moved to Debian something around beginning of the year 2002.

I then used IPCop to build a firewall, and decided to set up a home server for mail and web hosting later the same year. The “internet wayback machine” goes back to June 2003 for the first site I had published to document my experiences with GNU/Linux (note the irony: I used a @hotmail.com e-mail address at that time).

Given the archives of my mailbox, I think I have really and definitively switched my desktop machine to Debian GNU/Linux in the middle of the year 2003, when my gf accepted to give up her favourite cards games.

So funny to try and remember such things