General Unix Learning

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Date: 09/07/04

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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:15:37 +0000

    Please forgive me if this is not the right place to turn but, I figure you
    all would be able to share your wisdom with me.

    I am a Windows user and I've hated it for the past few years. The Unix
    experience I have accrued has mainly been working from a shell account;
    nothing really in detail about the actual operating system or installation.
    I have considered FreeBSD & Linux, but really, for a desktop system do you
    guys think it's viable for a nearly pure unix newbie to tinker around with
    BSD? Or would it be easier to start with Linux & eventually port over to
    BSD?

    Normally I'd take my own advice (if you want to use BSD, use BSD, if you want
    to use Linux at the end of the day, use that) but I'm just trying to be
    practical with all learning curves taken into consideration.

    My deepest apologies if I should not be asking something like this here. But
    any replies would be terribly appreciated.
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