I've mostly been using windows, I have been shown a small amount of linux at my friends house (i believe it was SUSE). I looked at some of the differant linux OS today, slackware looked interesting but looking at some of the posts i have seen it appears to be somewhat advanced. I'm still thinking about Freebsd, but i'm thinking i might go for linux, atleast for now. Thanks for your help, if you have anymore helpful links post em, i can use all the help i can get

oh yeah and about windows, i've have been using it for a very long time, probably for about 5 - 6 years, so i got windows down good. I have done alot of networks so i know somewhat of windows security.