i like to use windows 95 with the web publishing something or other... oh wait, this isn't the spam fest anymore is it? OpenBSD has had like one exploit in seven years I think, that's incredible. You can probably do more with linux because it's more popularso there are more packages for it, yet that also means more points of weakness. me personally I'd vote for *BSD, it is in use by several huge companies, (yahoo's one off the top of my head, used to be at hotmail, in fact it still is on some servers,) the ports collection makes it easy to update, and it's generally a bad-ass OS. If I werent' such a noob i'd be running it, but i want to do the LFS first. Anyhow, i'd say openBSD, a script kiddie comes by and sniffs openbsd, he runs the other way.