I have not used. heard about. or even seen Unix up close. Is there a site with lots of screen shots and info on it? I would like to learn more about it.

pls use a more decent nick name. (some viewer might be offended when pig/cattle is used to refer to a human-being) btw, to learn unix the best way is to install one on your desktop so you can mess with it hands on. there are a number of free unix systems for you to choose. redhat, mandrake, corel, suse, freebsd, openbsd, etc. all the best. ramzi

sorry if it offends some people, but there is a weird story behind my nickname. A friend and I were at a trade show a long while back and I signed up for a raffle the guy asked my name and my last name most unfortunately rhymes with pig. This guy asked if I sayed my name was pig both me and my friend laughed. When I corrected him his face turned reder than a stop sign. The name kind of stuck as dabigpig. oh ya and I will have to install it sometime when I find it thanx. The End

I highly recommend FreeBSD. 2 years ago I had no experience with anything but DOS & Windoze. Then at COMDEX I got about 15 CD ROM'S. Played with various flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, & NetBSD. Overall I strongly prefer FreeBSD. My machine that crawled with windoze was surprisingly fast with FreeBSD, and no need to reboot after any changes! You can be up & running all the time. You know what's going on with your computer and you have full control over it. You can download it free, but it's still nice to have a CD ROM. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD http://www.freebsdmall.com FYI none of these are UNIX. The BSD's can't be called UNIX because of a lawsuit by AT&T. The BSD's stemmed from BSD unix and after the lawsuit, BSD4.4 Lite was rewritten from scratch. The programmers that worked on it had been working on UNIX, so they knew what they were doing. So the BSD's work just like UNIX and seem like it, but we're not legally allowed to call it UNIX. As for Linux, that's a whole different thing. That stemmed out of the GNU project and Linus had written a kernel but had nothing else and Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation had the other programs needed for an OS, but no kernel. They were able to get an OS working by putting the 2 together rather than spending a few more years developing an OS on their own. Although Linux and the BSD's do look and feel very similarly, the kernels handle system calls differently. The BSD's have committees that approve the changes to it, Linux is just a package of a kernel and any programs that someone wants to put together. OpenBSD is the best for security. Yahoo and Google use FreeBSD, and as of now, some hotmail servers are still using FreeBSD. The world's busiest websites are powered by FreeBSD because it is so fast, efficient, & reliable. Mr. A