Red Hat 9 VS Free BSD

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So right now I'm in a linux course at school. So I'm using redhat 9 over there to learn with. I recently aquired a machine over here (which might actually be broken cuz it's mouse won't work and I'm not sure why) to run and play around with. I could use this to help learn more about red hat and screw around in my spare time. However many have told me that in a business your more likely to be working with unix with a huge important server. So what do you think sould I stick to linux and learn that right now, or try and learn a bit of freebsd while I'm at it?
 
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I've been wanted to try bsd on an older box for a while now. The only thing stopping me is it needs a new hdd.
Depending on the size of said biz may also change the linux distro. It may be a new distro made for the biz or just as likely novell.
 
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I'm a Mandrake fan myself and recommend checking that out on your PC at home. You also can't go wrong with Xandros 2.0.
 
ZenPirate

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At home go with Fedora Core over Red Hat. It's essentially a newer version of the same product.
 
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I'm a FBSD user, so naturally I would recommend you to tinker with FBSD, but as you're going (?) into 'business', you should learn both. Try FBSD first, then decide if you want to keep it or not. Besides, you can run all Linux-executables if you chose to install the Linux-base-port at installtime or via the ports.
a huge important server.
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Those usually run neither Linux nor FBSD but big/'professional' OSes like Solaris or AIX or..

Oh, BTW, here are some links to get you started with FBSD:
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00029.asp - It covers all the basics and a few advanced things you need to know (just skip the mailserver-part).
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 - More tuts
http://www.freshports.org/ - All updated ports are listed here.
http://www.bsdforums.org/ - Guess what.
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php - "as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb."
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html - teh handbook.
 
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