Re: buying a computer for Unix

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:47:02 -0500, don <don@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've never had anything else but Windows on my computer and now I want to
start using Unix. What would be the best computer to buy to start learning
Unix. My budget is around $1000.


You can learn a lot by installing cygwin on your windows box. It won't
provide a unix kernel, it it will allow you to learn how to use unix
shells, tools, and applications.

Well, not quite unix; it is linux, a unix clone.
.

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