Hi,

Here - https://www.marc.info/?l=netbsd-users&m=144678820111821 - I was 
recommended by Herb to first go through the book, 'Learning the UNIX Operating 
System' (O'Reilly). The last, 5th edition (2001) talks about someone from the 
organization will set me up with a UNIX environment - I guess that will be you.

Flipping through the table of contents, I guess my best bet would be a live 
system with X (remember, I was recommended 'Learning the UNIX Operating System' 
before myself installing BSD myself).

Flipping through the mailing list archives, there has been requests for live 
systems before, for similar, educational, purposes. I'm not sure what's the 
conclusion now, what NetBSD live system can you honestly recommend, if any? Or, 
alternatively, what FreeBSD live system? OpenBSD? I guess switching from the 
other BSD live system to installing NetBSD core might not overly confuse me, so 
I can manage such a transition.

Alternatively, feel free to recommend perhaps a more up to date book in a 
different style, which was presumably not written in a language to folks who 
'have to' deal with UNIX, 'in the organization.' (Browsing Amazon introduced me 
to 'The UNIX Hater's Handbook' as well; at least I understand this might have 
been a thing in 1994) I really like No Starch Press for geek entertainment, but 
presumably they don't see a business in a general UNIX book. Their similar 
title, 'How Linux works' (2nd edition, 2014), might not be 'UNIX-like' enough 
for my purposes.

Thanks for your help!

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