Yes, Ubuntu is really good, but it is debian based. You may want to download something else. Maybe Fedora which is RedHat based. but it all depends really. When you become comfortable with linux which is pretty easy to grasp, you could try out FreeBSD, a free version of berkeley unix. it takes you into a bit more of a complex system again, and once you get there you can set up pretty much any server or workstation in the world, even non i386 stuff, so you can use stuff like SPARC or Alpha CPUs.
Rob
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