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I, not knowing much about BSD, would like to know the difference between
the different versions(?) of BSD (eg. open, free etc.).

I have a intel based pc 200mmx and 32meg of ram. 

important to me are: 

easy instilation
emulation of other unixs (including linux)
good support on learning the system (right now I know about 0.000)(does
knowing dos help?)
cool people behind the project