[Bush2000]

And where's the admin for the hundreds of millions of home installs? Is everyone supposed to become a computer expert just to be relatively secure?

Tell it to Red Hat. Or Suse. Or Mandrake. Because they ship exactly the same way.

And for business, do you mind paying for the extra admin work to make up for the shortcomings of the OS and its initial configuration? I'd prefer to save the money.

Considering that you would need to add user accounts anyway -- and differentiating those user accounts as restricted is TRIVIAL -- I'd go with the OS that the vast majority of the world uses. Not some untested wallflower OS from pansyland California...

[Richard Kimball]

some untested wallflower OS from pansyland California...

I don't have a dog in the current discussion, but that's funny. Mind if I steal it sometime?

[antiRepublicrat]

I'd go with the OS that the vast majority of the world uses. Not some untested wallflower OS from pansyland California...

You mean the one that by default doesn't even enable the root account (= "Administrator" in Winodws)?

Untested? Dude, the core of that "untested" OS is the extremely tested BSD, which has been working in a networked environment since before Bill's OS even realized you could hook two computers together.