In most of the answers you will hear the words Free freedom etc. nLinux is certainly free monetarily. You can download and run any distro without giving a single dime to any of the people; who work youre benefiting from. Then again it is the choice of the developer to release his work for free. So one of the benefits is that you can a working system for absolutely free; provided you have the hardware ready. You pretty much don have to be worried about not being able to get anything on a Linux system. At one point Linux seemed to be just for geeks hobbyists and developers. nRight now even a standard user can get his work done; provided all he needs is a browser email word processing spreadsheets basic image manipulation calendar etc. There are viable alternatives for pretty much everything. But notice I said alternatives and not replacements.. The growing popularity of Open Source means that pretty much a lot of people are jumping in on the Linux bandwagon which means youre never going to be short of developers applications etc. For a business just starting this is something to think about. nBusiness will also benefit from the fact that due to Linux Unix-like structure it is quite stable and reliable and secure. You don have to worry about malicious software. So provided that you have a good IT person on call Linux should be able to handle yourputing needs with little overhead costs. nHowever for large scale Enterprise solutions; you will need to invest in either RedHat or SUSE. Another benefit of running Linux is that the system ispletely modular. This means that you should be able to customize the system to suit your own personal needs. If you need something to run on old hardware you can get a light weight distro or build up one using Arch Gentoo etc. The real benefit of Linuxmunity approach to software is that themunity is made up of different individuals with different tastes etc; many of whom are developers. This means that your own installing on your system can be incredibly personal and to your freedom of being open source is that you arepletely 1% sure of what is running on your system. In terms of privacy that is pretty good. You know that there is nothing that is spying on you for advertising marketing and other sinisterpanies.