Hi to all..

Having been reading a lot of forums here on Antionline, and from talking to a few people, I have decided that I would like to get into Unix.
At home i am currently running windoze 2k with 256 Mb ram on a 10 Gb HDD. I would like to find out where is the best place to start using / playing with / reading about it to get up and running and dual booting on my system, but not sodding up my current installation of w2k.
If I start playing around with it will i knacker anything up or can i just reinstall with no probs or wot?

Any advice gratefully recieved! Thanks everyone!


ps would like to get into programming too, so hints in that direction would be cool too... I'm not a maths expert so anything with none or very little would be a great help!