Amazing what happens with products and politians when they have the best propagandists. (Is there such a word?) I like Linux. Mandriva is safe, secure and easy. It plays friendly with my laptop and PCs. SuSE is good too. (Confession time: I have one AOL account, but that's because I'm a genealogist, and I would hate to miss a potential cousin to those brick walls I have. But I also do not have AOL's dial up. I have DSL and AOL is only $7.95)