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Lay it out for me. What are the advantages of going Linux?

I have almost enough parts to put together another PC. Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my desktop to the top of the line CPU (AMD Phenom II X6 1090), move my 1055 to my wife's PC and then build one more with simply a MB and memory (I have a case, HD, DVD drive, etc).

I have one more copy of Win 7 Pro, but I might put Linux on this. Is it a 64 bit OS? If I were to load server, besides file server, what might I use to for? Mail server? How tough to setup?
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