I'm a newbie to Unix. REAL green. So, I thought it would do me good to consider running a Unix OS on my spare 600 MHz iMac. I have the impression that installation of most Unix/Linus OSs is a engrossing endeavor. But I need to become comfortable editing and moving around in a Solaris environment.
Installation is a lot easier now than it was. It used to be the first thing you were presented with was decisions on how to set up the partitions on the disk including the swap space. Now a SuSE installation is fairly painless.
Is Darwin a possibility? If I were to use command line in terminal, would I be in an environment comparable to Solaris? For instance, Darwin doesn't come with vi, does it?
The terminal environment on OS X is very similar to terminal environment on other unixes. If you want to learn UNIX you can do it with OS X. OS X also uses the GNU toolchain.
OS X has vim - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor.
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