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beginning unix

i am fairly new to unix, and i would want a very simple, small command-line operating system to learn as much as possible. are there any good ones? i have a fairly old laptop w/ about 700 MB, running windows 95. i would like to partition it, anyone know how to do that? any help is very much appreciated. thanks a lot.

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