Alright, I'm buying a new computer and I'm planing to use my old one as an exclusive Unix based PC, mostly to learn and practice, but to implement a couple of servers as well (mostly a webserver, a mailserver and fileserver). So I need your opinion, which of these 2 great OSs should I give a try first?

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If your harddisk is big enough, why don't you try both of them as a dual boot system? You can use the same swap partition for both installations, and installing more than one Unix on a machine is alwasy fun. See how the Lilos overwrite each other ...

GreetingZ

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I would recommend SuSE, but if u really want customization go for Gentoo. SuSE is great, it has everything you need, in 1 DVD or 5 discs.

xboxrulz

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I had thought of SuSE, but have never used it... at all (not even the live cd's they had).

Can you please talk to me a little more in detail about SuSE or any other distro that you'll like to recommend to me?

I like Debian, because I've tried it (most of my experience with it has been through Knoppix, although, I installed it once in a computer I had back at home). Solaris is simply because I like java, I've never tried it before...

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SuSE has a great configuration tool called YaST2, it is very modular too, it's easy to configure your machine. YaST can also act as an autoupdater, that updates your whole system.

SuSE comes with KDE and GNOME, you can choose between them

SuSE is opensource and open-development, it's like Fedora Core, but it aims at everyone. Fedora Core is mainly for high-end users.

SuSE is powerful at gaming and has a kernel that is for your system.

SuSE is available as a paid package, with a large manual and support or for free without large manual and support.

It is a hybrid of Windows and Linux smashed into one great package, the ease, stability and customizability.

www.opensuse.org <-- get more info here

SuSE Linux is backed by Novell Inc.

xboxrulz

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well, its depends on you. Deabian is a lot more work and harder.
So if you prefer the easy way it would be suse or solaris.
I for myself tried Debian but its kinda hard.

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