In reply to phydeauxarff, most of the *Nix distro's are free, if that's what you mean by non-commercial.

Debian is a great recommendation, as is your page on Linux On Laptops. Actually the reason I had not included Debian in my recommendations is that I've had trouble installing it on my laptop (which the good people at Linux On Laptops fixed for me), and I have not with Mandrake or RedHat.

In any case, if you are interested in a source that is good for learning the general commands available in *Nix and how to use them, you could check out Linux Commands

I've found that link to be very helpful to me in conjunction with the man pages. Also, some Linux versions have the info facility which provides some good in depth info on certain topics. For example, I had an assignment that I had to use bison to do, so I typed info bison at the prompt and it pulled up several examples of using bison.

Hope this Helps.

In reply to Re: Re: My first "Windows Anonymous" session by SyN/AcK
in thread My first "Windows Anonymous" session by coldmiser

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