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baharnaz · 10-14-2000, 03:19 AM

i'm heading off into the Navy in December, and while i can't get ahold of an actual textbook i will be using (some kind of secrecy, damn those military guys) someone who was in the same program i will be entering told me i should learn to use UNIX.

so, i got a book, called Practical UNIX from QUE publishing. its a pretty good book, starts from the extreme basics.(such as what a processor is, and what RAM does, etc.)

only problem is, i don't have UNIX, i have Windows. and i do not want to spend a million bucks to get Solaris or something.

so i was hoping maybe one of you guys could direct me to a free/inexpensive or even downloadable UNIX OS that i could use to learn. in this book i have been reading it says that using Linux and UNIX are basically the same, but i really want to use the real stuff instead of Linux, i just don't want to confuse myself too much in the beginning.

any help is appreciated, and thanks in advance.

10-14-2000, 03:19 AM	#1
baharnaz Member (5 bit) Join Date: Jul 1999 Posts: 18	i'm heading off into the Navy in December, and while i can't get ahold of an actual textbook i will be using (some kind of secrecy, damn those military guys) someone who was in the same program i will be entering told me i should learn to use UNIX. so, i got a book, called Practical UNIX from QUE publishing. its a pretty good book, starts from the extreme basics.(such as what a processor is, and what RAM does, etc.) only problem is, i don't have UNIX, i have Windows. and i do not want to spend a million bucks to get Solaris or something. so i was hoping maybe one of you guys could direct me to a free/inexpensive or even downloadable UNIX OS that i could use to learn. in this book i have been reading it says that using Linux and UNIX are basically the same, but i really want to use the real stuff instead of Linux, i just don't want to confuse myself too much in the beginning. any help is appreciated, and thanks in advance.