Re:Preferances (Score 2, Informative)

The problem is Linux gets too much attention from the mass-media. My H'friends joke about me being the only one who uses FreeBSD. It's really hard to make someone feel, apreciate the "clean" feeling of FreeBSD, being built as _one_ project. That is why the dox are that good too. But for a newbie, who DOESN'T want to be a hacker, but only to understand the implications of "everyinthing is a file" (although he doesn't know it yet) and _maybe_ do some programming using sockets Linux is not much different from FreeBSD. Besides, the problems which arise with making a Linux box work smoothly get one to RTFM.
So FreeBSD is a good choice but not the best for newbies.