I have been a Linux user since 1995. My favorite distro's are Mandrake (now called Mandriva), and Redhat. I was a big believer in a router software called Smoothwall, and was very impressed with it's capabilities. Open source software has become the most powerful software, with the least number of flaws in it, that is available. There are very few commercial offerings that can compare with the open source code. Open source's strength, lies in the number of willing people that work on it and hack...