Re: Unix help please
Love the OS, not the name people 
These days its much more easier to play with OSs, just use VMWare, not VPC or Parallel, they are both slow.
Dear Peaceful People of planet earth, before diving into the OSs war, read this article.
A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels at OpenSolaris.org
My two cents?
Unix:
The only place, I have seen them using Unix successfully and productively, is telecom {PBX systems}, data centers, internet back bones, or mainframes. Still try a BSD like NetBSD, FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Don’t forget to give Solaris a shot.
Linux:
There are four major categories under which distros are released, check out the best in each category and you won’t find much of a difference but still for
Home: I hate to repeat it but yes use, Ubuntu.
Commercial: CentOS or Gentoo.
** Suse and Fedora are both the best in their own category.
MAC OSX:
Home: Stable. Productive. Eye Candy.
Commercial: Do yourself a favor and go with Windows. The hype created by Apple is amazing. I have a PowerBook G4/PowerMAC G5 and a Macbook Pro. Apple expects you to upgrade your OS, as soon as it comes out, if you don’t they don’t really care about you. Nor does the MAC developers and I don’t blame them, if the vendor itself ditches the OS then what can the developers do. So what happens to enterprises using Tiger on PPC?? Oh yea right, upgrade to Leopard/Intel. Apple in short is a mess. The glossy website, the shiny interface, and the hype is only there to rip off people. Fortunately, enterprises know that, only the home users like me and you don’t
Windows
We all love to pick on windows but I recently downloaded WinXP SP3 Integrated from MSDN directly. With a fresh install and a few services turnedoff, I was able to run XP in just 50MB of memory space and 10 services only. Not boasting about it, I’m pretty sure everyone here can do that and much more but seriously how cute is that… awwww XP
Vista, isn’t half as bad as everyone says, only problem is that it needs better hardware to run. And the worst decision that was made by Vista development team was changing the drivers mechanism. In a way, it was needed to secure the OS but it did created a bit of a mess in the already messed up drivers world.
HAPPY OS’ing