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Old 20th May 2008
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ocicat made a very good post (y).


I personally started with FreeBSD, I find no major problems going and using a Linux or OpenBSD machine (aside from a few shell aliases that needed porting).

The only issues are where they differ the most and on the BSDs it is much less because of the common origins. The biggest stumbling points would probably be kernel related things, which is where every system is likely to differ (BSD from Linux and AIX and vice versa).


If the reason for learning is only business: I'd suggest Fedora, CentOS, or Debian.


For fun or sake of learning, any will do. I chose FreeBSD because it felt the best unix like system that meets my tastes and style when it comes to how things are done.


If you seriously learn one UNIX system you can make the transition to others without a lot of trouble.



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(y) is an emote for thumbs up.
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