[Coral Snake]

I have been a "lurker" here for several years before getting a posting account and know that most people here are honest patriotic conservatives.
Of most of the posters here I particularly like Doug From Upland since I am somewhat of a musical parodist myself. I mostly use Civil War songs (Regardless of the side, Both the Union and the Confederacy made great music that it is easy to add modern lines to.) and other 19th and early 20th
century public domain music for these.

Now back to somewhat on topic. I take your second answer to probably be a BSD of some kind being that linux is going to be toast. I would personally reccomend NetBSD if FreeRepublic has to continue using a free OS. It doesn't have that "devil" mascott that Christian users might object to. (Not me however I know the difference between an OS mascott and the real thing. In fact the real thing can sometimes even look like a penguin ;-).

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks for your suggestions Coral Snake, you are an open source advocate deserving of respect. So many 'free sofware' people seem so obsessed with the 'free' aspect of it for them personally, and instead only want to "take" verses your true desire to "give". And yes, the symbolism of many open source projects like 'Mono' are evil in appearance, and I simply don't understand the need unless that is somehow attractive to their users much like 'heavy metal' music symbolism must be to some as well. As for the penguin, silly, obviously, not really any better than the Gateway 'cow'.