Operating systems comparison: Linux vs Windows
- A comparison of Linux and Windows by Michael Horowitz The article provides detailed comparison of 2 operating systems. Considers more than thirty aspects of OS and shows advantages and disadvatages of of Windows and Linux. These are aspects are flavors, characteristics of graphical user interface, command interpreter, cost, obtaining and installing application software, antivirus protection, software restrictions, pupported peripherals, hardware the OS runs on, networking, file system, back up of user data, future of Windows and Linux.
- Linux vs. Windows debate on Desktop Linux Forum Place where people bedate pros and cons of Linux vs. Windows. Here you can ask any question about comparison these operating systems. Some topics: What will Longhorn Do to Microsoft and Linux, Which improvements does Linux need to compete with Windows, File Systems, Why Windows Is Better, What Linux really needs.
- Unix for Windows The article (January 23, 2004) discusses several approaches to run Windows applications on Unix and Linux applications on Windows OS. “Software from CodeWeavers provides a Windows-emulation layer that runs selected Windows applications… open source Cygwin project creates a Linux-emulation layer that integrates with Windows.” Two Microsoft products, SFU and Virtual PC 2004, which can be used to run Linux applications, are described.
- Comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX Article of Steve Ballmer, head honcho at Microsoft, October 27, 2004. In this article Ballmer answers the following questions often asked by Microsoft customers. Does an open source platform really provide a long-term cost advantage compared with Windows? Which platform offers the most secure computing environment? Given the growing concern among customers about intellectual property indemnification, what’s the best way to minimize risk? In moving from an expensive UNIX platform, what’s the best alternative in terms of migration?
- Desktop Linux versus Windows XP shootout Blog by George Ou on ZDnet. George compares performance of running office aplications on Linux and Windows. He measures load time of Office 2003 on Windows XP and OpenOffice on SUSE Linux. Geogre claims: “What’s more surprising is that Windows XP and Office 2003 running in 96 MBs of RAM even managed to beat OpenSUSE and OpenOffice.org 2 running in 352 MBs of RAM!” See full article for the details of the experiment.
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - product page Product description, Amazon.com editorial review. It is noted that support of notebook users is improved in this new version of Microsoft OS. New possibility to excess Internet data from computer desktop and ease to work with it make Windows 2000 more attractive for mobile users. More then hundred customer reviews listed.
- SuSE Linux 10.0 - product page List of OS features. Product description. More than 10 customer reviews.
