hey I'm taking a class on unix this sesemter and was thinking of installing linux .

but the local computer store only has mandrake, suse, redhat and freebsd. the school has solaris and I know that suse, mandrake, and redhat are good distro's for newbie's but I kind of like slackware and was thinking of trying FreeBSD or Debian. Slackware 3.0 was harder to install and configure, but it was fun installing. Before someone stole my computer I install it on a 486machine with only 16meg of ram and a very small hard drive:-* after trying several days I finally got it to install all but X cause my system didn't have enough mem to run X. I was justing wanting your opinion about different distro's besides mandrake, suse, or redhat that a newbie like myself could run on my new system. That would give me a challenge or help me learn more about Unix-like OS'es.

Thanxs in advance for your opinions.

What Unix or Unix-like OS did U learn first!

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