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Old 08-18-2005
Choosing a version

I know that the rules say no school questions but I am in advanced topics and am going to go to college for programming and I want to find a easy first OS to start me out, please help, thanks
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Old 08-18-2005
=o windows.
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Old 08-19-2005
Besides Windows, I want a unix based OS, Please.


ps, I am not allowed to download Solaris 10 because the download time is too great. thanks
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Old 08-19-2005
Hammer & Screwdriver

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Originally Posted by KoKo
I know that the rules say no school questions but I am in advanced topics and am going to go to college for programming and I want to find a easy first OS to start me out, please help, thanks
Hi !
If you realy want to learn UNIX, I'll recomend you FreeBSD. It is a little bit more difficult (according to some persons) then Linux, but this is only at the first sight.
Now, after I used FreeBSD for almost one year, I find it much easyer and user friendly then any Linux distro.
If you want to take a look on this, go to http://www.freebsd.org/ and you'll find more details.
Anyway, this is just my (humble) opinion.
I hope this helped.
Bye !

P.S.
You can also make an free shell account at arbornet.org to take a look at FreeBSD running as a server.
 
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