Windows Vs Linux

Slide 2: What is Linux? Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds developed under the GNU General Public License and the source code of which is freely available to every one.

Slide 3: History • GNU Project started in 1984 to create “free” UNIX clone. • LINUX kernel created by Finnish college student, Linus Torvalds in 1991. LINUS TORVALDS

Slide 4: Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) What can you do?  Freedom to use  Freedom to examine  Freedom to redistribute  Freedom to modify  What can't you do?  Deny these freedoms to anyone else 

Slide 5: Why use Linux? Reliability  Scalability  Flexibility  Security  Price 

Slide 6: The Unix 'onion' Linux kernel + GNU applications = complete, free, UNIX-like OS

Slide 10: Desktop applications Word processing (OpenOffice, Koffice)  Programming (C, C++, Perl, Python, Java,  PHP) Graphics (GIMP)  Web browsers (Mozilla, Konquerer)  Email (Evolution, Mozilla, KMail)  Audio (amarok)  Games (MAME) 

Slide 19: Linux Distributions ( Flavours ) RedHat/Fedora  Market leader. Licensing changes mean this  is a less obvious choice than before. SuSE  Well-equiped. Recently acquired by Novell.  Mandrake  Friendly, slick.  Debian  Non-commercial, community-maintained.  Tricky but powerful

Slide 20: The command line

Slide 21: Linux VS Windows

Slide 22: Flavors LINUX WINDOWS Suse Windows 95 Fedora Windows 98 Redhat Windows Me Debian Windows XP Ubuntu Windows 2000 Knoppix Windows 2003 Slackware Lycoris Linspire (Lindows)

Slide 23: Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Slide 24: Text Mode Interface The BASH Shell The DOS Prompt

Slide 25: Clustering

Slide 26: For the Enterprise…

Slide 28: End the monopoly…