Made By: Micheal Mouner Linux VS Windows

Agenda

1.History 2.Comparison 3.Linux Interface 4.Linux Applications 5.Linux Flavors 6.Company Level 7.References

History

What is it? Windows Windows is the family of operating system (OS) from Microsoft, which is the most famous OS in the world. Linux Linux is an example of Open Source software development and Free Operating System (OS).

Development and Distribution: Windows Windows is developed and distributed by Microsoft. Linux Developed by Open Source development It is distributed by various vendors such as Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu etc.

First Release Windows Windows first released in Linux Linux first released in 1989.

Market share Windows As on 2007, 92.63% of PC users from all over the world run Windows OS Linux The market share of Linux is about 0.8%

Comparison

Price Windows Microsoft Windows can run between $ $ US dollars per each license copy. Linux The majority of Linux variants are available for free or at a much lower price than Microsoft Windows.

Reliability Windows MS has made great improvements in reliability over the few versions of Windows, it still cannot match the reliability of Linux. Linux The majority of Linux variants and versions are reliable and can often run for months and years without needing to be rebooted.

Software Windows Because of the large amount of MS users, there is a much larger selection of available software programs, utilities, and games for Windows. Linux Linux has a large variety of available software programs, utilities, and games. However, Windows has a much larger selection of available software.

Software Cost Windows The majority of the programs will cost anywhere between $ $ US dollars per copy. Linux Many of the available software programs, and utilities available on Linux are freeware or open source. Even such complex programs such as Gimp, OpenOffice, StarOffice, and wine are available for free or at a low cost.Gimp OpenOfficeStarOfficewine

Security Windows Although Microsoft has made great improvements over the years with security on their operating system, their operating system continues to be the most vulnerable to viruses and other attacks. Linux Linux is and has always been a very secure operating system. Although it still can be attacked when compared to Windows, it much more secure.

Open Source Windows Microsoft Windows is not open source and the majority of Windows programs are not open source. Linux Many of the Linux variants and many Linux programs are open source and enable users to customize or modify the code however they wish to.

What can we do With Linux? Freedom to use Freedom to examin Freedom to redistribute Freedom to modify You can’t deny these freedoms to anyone else

Linux Interface

Linux Software

Linux Applications Word processing (OpenOffice, Koffice) Programming (C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, PHP) Graphics (GIMP) Web browsers (Mozilla, Chrome) (Evolution, Mozilla, KMail) Audio (Amarok) Games (MAME)

Open Office

Power Point

Programming

Graphics

Web Browsers

Audio & Video

Skype

Dictionary

Messenger

Linux Flavors

Company LvL

Company Level Think about License Cost (Windows, Office, etc.) Product Price Security Community

Company Level

Who Use Linux?

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