Must have been mid 90's, and I was in France with my parents who were doing up a run down house there, and we ended up in some shop and I stumbled upon a "Linux Pour Les Nuls" book which came with a RedHat disc - that was my first ever foray into Linux! I spent my summer holidays messing about on a laptop with it, and that pretty much cemented my joy it. So, whatever happens (and I have no idea as I'm not really paying much attention to it) but it was always my first!