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pretty much firefox though I also have google chrome, chromium, opera, lynx amog several other browsers install, I.E isn't even installed on this system (I'm using ubuntu and I wouldn't want IE on here)

Up until recently I've always maintained my own mail server but of late I've switched over to using google's gmail, and I think for general usage it's the best solution there

apart from libdvdcss2, install w32codecs or if your using 64bit w64codecs...another player I would recommend is vlc

Ok for servers a Unix or Linux system is a must windows servers are horrible. No stability and their resource usage is atrocious, for the same amount of traffic that would take 100 windows powered systems you could power it by 30 Linux systems, that is no joke..... And as for the second post in this forum... if you want full commercial support, you actually have a couple of very good choices in the Linux world, RHEL which red hat enterprise Linux or Ubuntu Linux which is sponsored by Canonical. Ubuntu these days is seeing more and more use as a main stream server due to it's ease of use and LTS stability and it's strong commercial support by canonical, the OS is free though if you choose you don't need commercial support unlike RHEL. CentOS is basically a free RHEL but you don't have the option of support there if you choose you want it. My recommendation would be a LTS version of Ubuntu sicne though not required you can get support if needed and it has a very simple apt system to install software. installing a full operational web server with ubuntu is as simple as typing in the following sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server; sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 graceful after which you have a fully operational webserver

so no other steps needed, no codes to copy or anything, wow that's surprisingly easy I have to say

I created a forum account here and I created an account at https://support.xisto.com/ the bit I'm lost with and can't work out is how do I link these together to get mycents when I post and such?

Linux all the way......

One of the coolest things I am finding about Linux is how easy everything is for me, bash scripting is superb gives me a lot of control on automating tasks or just grouping commands to make them a lot quicker overall, its reducing the time I spend doing repetitive work to nill, With windows that repetitive work was what took up 90% of my time