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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 18:15:13 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: "Mohsin Sabir." <mohsinsabir@rogers.com>
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:52:27AM -0400, Mohsin Sabir. wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am a Microsoft Product Administrator and been engaged with Microsoft Products from the last 7 years.  Now, I have opted that I should add something more to my expertise and thought about *nix but have hard time to pick which Unix, as there are quite a bit of flavors available out there.
> 
> I read about you, saw the sites hosted by you.  I want to try BSD Unix and please advise me which version is the latest and greatest from where I can start.  
> 
> Please advise.

For more info:

    http://www.freebsd.org/
    http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/

If you're new, use the production release 4.8-RELEASE.
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