Which is the best open source code operating system?
Best for what? I use Slackware and Gentoo which are very UNIX-like and command-line oriented (even when I don’t use the command line I keep a terminal open on the desktop sort of like a security blanket). I learned linux in 1994/95 when my college installed slackware in a lab so students could have access to netscape which wasn’t available for windows yet. I actually spent a few years switching my computing over, and during my transition had an account on cyberspace.org which used to use Solaris but switched to FreeBSD while I still had an account. Solaris was proprietary at the time and frankly was faster and more efficient than OpenSolaris is now. FreeBSD is less forgiving than Linux but I just put it on one of my old laptops. I actually installed Red Hat Linux on my computers first, and stayed with it through Fedora 4 when it became too demanding of my hardware. I tried Fedora Core 10 when I got my new laptop but decided I dislike selinux and KDE 4.0 too much to stick with it and du