That'll be the next survey question because folks have decided Linux is the most secure platform. So, working on 11 or 12 distro choices, which ones should be added?

- Mandrake
- Redhat
- Caldera
- Turbo
- Trinix
- SuSE

More...?

Honestly, there should be no real difference in how secure they can potentialy be, the possibilities are endless. For the most part, it doesn’t depend on the distro, it more so depends on the administrator of the box. I’d hope no one leaves any operating system with default installation, no matter how ‘secure’ they claim there product to be. *cough* openbsd *cough*

Well Paul for that route I'd say these should be in the mix too.

Debian
Slackware
ASPLinux
Gentoo

Not quite sure on the meaning of secure here, but (although it's not linux, it's a UNIX sort of) OpenBSD has only had one update to the installation in 7 years.

Or if your talking firewall or something like that, then iptables or ipchains should do you fine. Both come with most distros, if not all.

Stability? For me, BSD's were alwasy stable, but I can recommend Slackware and debian for an experienced computer user. For an intro to Linux, try Mandrake or Redhat.