Comparison of UNIX, Linux and Microsoft
There are three basic types of operating system in use today. UNIX, Linux and Solaris are on one group, then Windows, and then Mac. There are 7 major factors that affect a choice on each of the systems not including the Mac. In this paper, we compare UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows across these seven categories:
Cost
Market Share
Hardware requirements
File processing
Programming capabilities
Avaibability of application sofrware
User interface
Cost and Market Share
There are a quite a few advantages to using Microsoft products over Linux. It is true that Linux source is freely available and users can build a good reliable system using it but to build a Linux system, a user needs good knowledge of a compiler
program to compile the kernel and build the basic system, good knowledge of the Linux/Unix file system, the ability to scour through the net and find programs freely available to use and a good chunk of time. How......
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