Mac Rumors just got hacked during the Macworld Keynote.
The live stream of events was going and then all of a sudden things began to go.. wrong.. like having Mac Rumors say they were being sponsored by 4chan or the kkk.
Mac Rumors Hacked
Use ubuntu the first time.. just becaue there is a massive amount of support.
Once you feel comfortable in ubunutu learn some bash
Then you may want to move onto another linux distro (debian, gentoo, whatever feels right to you)
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