I've been playing with the best of both worlds myself. My primary machine runs OSX. My firewall/router runs OpenBSD. I've installed an played with Linux on several machines.

For my purposes, OSX suits very nicely on the desktop, while I feel secure with one of the most paranoid OS distributions guarding the gateway.

OSX lets me use as much or as little linux style opensource software as I want, which still giving me the option to use best of breed commercial applications.

I can run Photoshop, Microsoft Office, as well as free opensource implementations like The Gimp and Openoffice at the same time, as well as take advantage of Apple's nifty video editing and music playing apps, etc. Apple's new browser, Safari, is pretty spiffy too.

If I were going to ditch the Mac, I would probably go with some flavor of BSD on a PC box, because it appeals to my paranoid geek heavy taste in PC junk.

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jeremy wood
'88 260E ~200,700 miles
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