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UNIX based / like OS suggestions to dual boot with Windows

Hello everybody! I'm a long-time windows user with some very limited experience with some Linux distributions. I'm a programmer (in training), but I've worked mostly with .NET stuff.

I started a new job a couple of weeks ago and was issued a MacBook Pro to work on. I have fallen in love with the UNIX terminal and shell scripting (before, I had only written a couple short scripts for a class in a Linux OS).

I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for a good UNIX based or Unix-like OS to install on my Windows laptop so I can dual boot.

I currently have Ubuntu installed. I'm fairly happy with it, and it's similar to the Mac OS X with its launcher and left-corner buttons, but I haven't had experience with really any other Unix-like systems and I'm afraid I just don't know what I'm missing out on!

I would like to just get a MacBook of my own, but I don't really have that kind of cash sitting around, and I've already got a perfectly good Windows laptop.

I'm not wanting an argument on which one is the best, I'd just like to know which ones you all use and why, or if there's any major differences at all, really. Smilie

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pommed

POMMED(1)						      General Commands Manual							 POMMED(1)

NAME

       pommed - Apple laptops hotkeys event handler

SYNOPSIS

       pommed [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pommed daemon.

       pommed is a daemon handling the hotkeys found on the Apple laptops, like the MacBook Pro, MacBook and PowerBook laptops. These hotkeys con-
       trol, through pommed, the LCD backlight level, the audio volume, the keyboard backlight level (only on  the  MacBook  Pro  and  the  latest
       PowerBook)  and	the CD/DVD drive ejection. Additionally, pommed monitors the ambient light sensors found on the MacBook Pro and the latest
       PowerBook to automatically light up the keyboard backlight when the ambient light level gets too low.

       pommed can optionally support the Apple Remote Control, too (this option is disabled by default and only available for the MacBook Pro  and
       MacBook).

OPTIONS

       pommed accepts the following command-line options.

       -v     Print version information.

       -f     Run in the foreground, printing log messages to stdout.

       -d     Run in the foreground, printing log messages to stdout and debug messages to stderr.

FILES

       /etc/pommed.conf
	      The configuration file for pommed. See the comments in the file for the structure of the file and the available options.

AUTHOR

       pommed was written by Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>.

								    2007-01-09								 POMMED(1)