Funding is none existant this is for personal development most/all my garage
clients use Windows and $Dayjob$ is either Windows or IBM with high
restrictions in place.  I figure in a couple of more years moving on to
another job elsewhere and want to have enough knowledge to work in a more
varied OS environment.  I like to keep at least 3 study paths open at any
given time to keep me busy and learning.  At the moment I am looking at
Direct Access and PKI so I need a third subject.

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions so far,

Jon

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 19:54, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Which of the open source OS's would be best for a complete n00b to start
> > working with to learn.  I know there are a bunch of different OS's that
> all
> > come out of the Unix but which distro would have a good ISO to learn on?
> >
> > Thanks for your opinions,
> >
> > Jon
>
> Depends on what you want to learn, and why.
>
> My vote, however, goes to FreeBSD.
>
> Why? Because of this: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html
>
> but most especially this:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
>
> If you want a desktop installer, try PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org/
>
> Kurt
>
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