what and linux doesnt,
Sure firewalls - best thing, but not microsoft
on linux firewall is built right in all u have to do is configure
I was used FreeBSD, but anyway XP - have more things like Exel, Photoshop, Corel and so on... and sure games
lets see what replaces Exel, Photoshop, &Corel
OpenOffice and KOffice
OpenOffice 1.0.2 is a full-featured office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications. OpenOffice 1.0.2 is available in 20 different languages, it can read and write most types of Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files replaces
OpenOffice REPLACES
office 2000
the gimp replaces Photoshop with easy to use features
The GIMP 1.2.3 is the latest version of this world-class image editing application.
A large selection of scanners are supported which can be easily utilized with XSane and The GIMP.
Kontour is a vector drawing application similar to Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator.
Gphoto and XawTV lets you use digital cameras with Mandrake Linux.
XMMS 1.2.7 is a premier multimedia application which supports many sound and video formats such as MP3, OGG and MPEG-video.
Grip 3.0.5 is an easy-to-use program for ripping audio CDs.
Cdrecord 2.0.2 and XCDRoast are available for burning CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
Xine 0.9.18 is a video player for viewing unencrypted DVDs.
this is all on which i just picked up over the weekend PowerPack Edition 9.1
now why is it I need 20 different software packages, when all the features pasted above from
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/powerpack
comes on 7 cd's