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You mean this one?

Also, any form of malware on a "secure" operating system is just as damaging as one on an insecure one. While your system may be recoverable, your 1TB of beautiful artwork will be waxed because you generally store that as something that can be deleted by regular user privileges.

Reminds me of Damn Vulnerable Linux although that one's just for learning purposes, not for fighting what's out there.

Coral Cache:

http://www.goodgearguide.com.au.nyud.net/article/351651/12_most_interesting_unusual_useful_linux_distros/

List of the distros:

• Damn Vulnerable Linux
• Tinfoil Hat Linux
• CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment)
• CAELinux
• Ubuntu Christian Edition
• live.linuX-gamers.net
• Parted Magic
• Musix GNU+Linux
• Zeroshell Linux
• Mythbuntu
• Damn Small Linux
• Tiny Core Linux

steveha

Can you give examples of good Exchange replacements?

Yes, for that see DVL. Seriously, though you have to define what activities you need to do before you can ask for a replacement. MS Exchange is marketed in many niches and fails (on the surface) in most. The most spectacular is its failure as a mail server replacement, if you look at it as such. If you look at the wonderful cover of plausible deniability it gives executives by randomly losing and delaying mail, then that is a success.

Anyway, try looking these. Keep in mind that, unlike with M$ products, you can combine pieces of several packages.

• Kolab — http://www.kolab.org/
• Citadel — http://www.citadel.org/
• Dingo Calendar Server — http://andrew.triumf.ca/dingo/
• Darwin CalendarServer — http://trac.calendarserver.org/
• Bedework — http://www.bedework.org/
• Zimbra — http://www.zimbra.com/
• OpenGroupware — http://www.opengroupware.org/

If you are simply looking to improve reliability of e-mail they a plain Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) will do. Before it became too embarrassing for M$, it used to be recommended practice to put one of these in front of MS Exchange to improve reliability and security. Also look up ClamAV, Spamassassin and how to do greylisting.

• simta — http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/simta/
• Dovecot — http://www.dovecot.org/
• Postfix — http://www.postfix.org/
• Exim — http://www.exim.org/
• Sendmail — http://www.sendmail.org/
• qmail — http://www.qmail.org/

However, before you can think about "replacing" MS Exchange, you will have to get rid of the staff that selected and deployed it in the first place. They ignored all the licensing shortcomings, the bad reviews, high price and ongoing technical failure to instead push ideology over technology. People making decisions based on ideology are not going to accept any technical or economic arguments...

I suggest this Linux distribution:

DVL 1.5

Also are you implying that since Joe Sixpack can't afford Photoshop, he's missing out on his opportunity to make money from image editing? What about GIMP and other OSS solutions? Can you actually name some commercial software that doesn't have an OSS counterpart?