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[Wojciech Puchar]

> Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing.  That means attracting

NO IT IS NOT!


> complete beginners by what ever means work, since today's
> Noob is potentially tomorrow's elite Kernel programmer.

At first he must be programmer at all. you can learn programming in 
any OS, even that bad as windoze.

if he/she is really smart then he/she will quickly search for some real OS 
after learning just basics of programming.

and THEN try FreeBSD or other unix.