Unix...Which should I choose

[discreteenmity]

I want to teach myself UNIX and wanted to hear your opinions of which flavor I should use. There is solaris, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, and others. Which should I go with and a few whys?

 

[Sevoma]

I would recommend Freebsd.
Best hardware support out of the bunch, pretty secure, large userbase, easier to use (imo). Openbsd is designed with security in mind but I find freebsd is nicer even in secure applications. Solaris from what I heard is nothing special. Same with netbsd.
Go with freebsd.

 

[Tyler1989]

Solaris seems interesting and they boast of it's Server cababilities.

 

[ATIRAGEPRO]

"FreeB$disk..."

FreeBSD is a wondefil little thing, I tell you. I set up a dedicated server with it once...

And it served...

 

[furtivefelon]

read sticky:
http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59255

not enough? google it:
http://www.google.com/search?client...++difference&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://www.google.com/search?hs=Jz8&hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=linux++distribution&btnG=Search

 

[Eleaf]

Well, they are looking for a Unix, not Linux which is what all of the above links are.
Although they are similiar, they do have their differences.
Anyways )..

 

[furtivefelon]

You didn't really tell us why you want to use unix, because i believe unix caters to a much more specific niche than linux does, and technically, linux conforms to POSIX standard, that makes it a unix-like system, which is quite close to the real thing unless you want to get lower than user-level tools..

Unix is just a trademark, technically, freebsd is not a unix in the sense that you cannot call it as such.. Since it didn't bother to get certification from the unix foundation..

 

[discreteenmity]

I'm looking for something that is used most often in the industry. For servers and such. I know a bit of linux (RHEL) but want to expand my repertoire. Sorry for not being as specific before. Thanks for the replies though.