a come to research for that ,but they told me Solaris gave a free version of Unix.. were using HPux @ school, am using linux redhat v.9 but haven't try using BSD, a friend of mine told me that Sun Solaris has a site with free downloadable unix os, am searching the net for some path on the site that they told me ...i just read that info on other BBS ... so i try to find one so that i can use it for some scripting practice, maybe you think am a hell crazy... to find that kind of OS hehehe maybe am a weird person haahaha well am still hoping to get one...