Hey folks, I'm currently a university student in the Caribbean. I'm majoring in Computer Science and this semester I'm doing the course, operating systems. I have never used any other operating system besides Windows, mostly Xp. I've heard and read about open source but the concept is still unfamiliar to me. I must get familiar with UNIX and LINUX though because my OS course is programming in this os. In our lab session we load OpenSuse, wats is this exactly? another os? I am familiar with C programming though and I actully like that language. Basically I need help visualising how UNIX and LINUX are related and differ from what I have known all my life. I've been told that LINX is built on the UNIX platform, what is a platform in this sense? I've read about 'stuff' built in the UNIX platform like Ubuntu and AIX, is that right? Thanx lots