Linux or Windows

The brain child of Microsoft has never faced difficulties capturing advanced computer users, prior to the advent of Linux.

The main reason is that many of the Linux versions are available for free with full features. But be careful. I don't mean all the features available in Windows.  So, linux or windows?

The free Linux versions don't restrict the use of all the features available in the operating system (the OS). That means no Trial, or Evaluation, or Demo releases. But in contrast to Windows, the features available in Linux for free are the same advance features of Windows which an administrator loves to have in his toolkit.

All server based technologies like Web Servers, DNS Servers, Mail Servers, et cetra, became available to the network techies free of cost. But this is the only good thing about Linux.

We must also consider what Linux doesnt provide. (I wont be discussing the contemptible points like the GUI differences). Linux is totally based on UNIX infrastructure. UNIX doesnt bear a good reputation as one of the more robust OS. It is very famous in educational institutions as the most buggy and vulnerable OS ever. The number of bugs in the different releases of UNIX is a matter of record. Thus, Linux bears if not all, at least some of those bugs and loopholes.

The second biggest trouble with Linux is the hardware compatibility problems. There are not many video cards or sound cards supported by Linux, and if your machine is one of a kind, than Linux is certainly not the option for you. Some might ask, does it matter if you can't run your sound card or see fully graphical interfaces? Then I would answer what about the different SCSI interfaces, and the modems which it doesnt support?

The only solution to the problem is to write a driver for those devices by yourself, in any supported language, link it with the Linux Kernel, and than recompile the Kernel.

I have seen many students select networking as their career because they hate computer programming, or dont find themselves competent in this area of Computer Science. Those studying computer programming have a dilemma because they did not know that the only option was to load Windows, or else learn how to program device drivers in Linux, dependant upon your version.

Windows supports the Micro-Kernel architecture, meaning that the Hardware Abstraction Layers would certainly make installing new devices much easier, when compared to those OS which support the conventional Kernel architecture. You are only lucky with Linux if you can find the device driver of your hardware on the Makers website, with a hope that the website doesnt utilize VB Script or Client Side ActiveX controls- otherwise you are doomed.

The specious looking open source is like an unidentified sweet knife, which in large organization with critical information storage can be lethal for the owner of the OS. It is just like keeping a rattle snake as a pet.

Now the information is in your hands.

Windows is centrally controlled and does not pose the same threat as Linux.

To conclude, it must be known to the big businesses that a centrally controlled environment can increase efficiency. The same is true for OS as well, because in computing environments they are just like the back bone of a human.

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