Comparing Microsoft And Linux Software??
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at
00:25
can eny of you help me compare microsoft and linux software ?
or have eny sites that will help me please let me no thank you 
Tagged with: Linux • Microsoft
Filed under: Microsoft
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After many (10+) years of using Windows I discovered Gnu/Linux (thats the geeky way of saying Linux). I have tried every Linux version there is and have come to the conslusion that Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) is by far the easiest Linux version for Windows users to migrate to (make sure you check out http://www.getautomatix.com after installing Ubuntu).
If you have a geeky side to you (not afraid to try new things computer related) then it will be a piece of cake. If you blow a fuse when someone moves your icons on your desktop then you may freak out a bit during the conversion.
If you make the committment to dive in and learn a bit (Bill Gates hates it when you do that) then you will be able to navigate thru any computer crisis you face. It’s really not that hard.
Give it a try. Do some research. Learn something. You might just like the feeling!
My best advice would be what a friend told me to do. Install VMWare on your computer and create a virtual machine with Ubuntu as the OS. This way you can take time to explore it’s features and functions.
Nothing basically, The OS is just an abstration layer. It’s all about accessing the hardware resources. Give two people the same task with the same tools, the results will be simular, but they will have a different look and feel.
Anyway, the different linux distributions look as different to each other as they do to Windows anymore.
Well, if you have not got much experience, Windows is the best way for you.
But, if you are experienced, I’d definetly go with either Ubuntu Linux or Suse Linux 10.2 (both are 100% free to download)
Linux is a little tricky to get started but it is way worth it later!
You can download Ubuntu and use it for free because it’s open source. You can boot from a cd to try it out. I can’t explain it all so well, but these sites can.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/
FEATURES:
Both Windows and Linux come in many flavors. All the flavors of Windows come from Microsoft, the various distributions of Linux come from different companies (i.e. Linspire, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, Knoppix, Slackware, Lycoris, etc. ).
Windows has two main lines. The older flavors are referred to as "Win9x" and consist of Windows 95, 98, 98SE and Me. The newer flavors are referred to as "NT class" and consist of Windows NT3, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista.
There may be too many distributions of Linux, it’s possible that this is hurting Linux in the marketplace. It could be that the lack of a Linux distro from a major computer company is also hurting it in the marketplace. IBM is a big Linux backer but does not have their own branded distribution. Currently there seem to be many nice things said about the Ubuntu distribution.
Linux is customizable in a way that Windows is not. For one, the user interface, while similar in concept, varies in detail from distribution to distribution. For example, the task bar may default to being on the top or the bottom.
Both Linux and Windows provide a GUI (graphical user interface) and a command line interface. The Windows GUI has changed from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 (drastically) to Windows 2000 (slightly) to Windows XP (fairly large) and is slated to change again with the next version of Windows, the one that will replace XP. Windows XP has a themes feature that offers some customization of the look and feel of the GUI.
Is the flexibility of the Linux GUI a good thing? Yes and No. While advanced users can customize things to their liking, it makes things harder on new users for whom every Linux computer they encounter may look and act differently.
COST:
For desktop or home use, Linux is very cheap or free, Windows is expensive. For server use, Linux is very cheap compared to Windows. Microsoft allows a single copy of Windows to be used on only one computer. Starting with Windows XP, they use software to enforce this rule (Windows Product Activation at first, later Genuine Windows). In contrast, once you have purchased Linux, you can run it on any number of computers for no additional charge.
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