This is a presentation designed by Abhishek Gupta ,Free Software Evangelist , to help people explain why Linux is better than any other OS

1. Why is Linux Better ? Abhishek Gupta Free Software Evangelist [email_address]

2. Dollars

4. The price for a Windows license amounts to an average of one fourth of each new computer's price

5. You can get Linux completely free of charge.

6. These guys all around the world worked very hard to make a neat, secure, efficient, good-looking system

7. Some companies are making good business by selling support, documentation, hotline, etc., for their own version of Linux but most of the time its free.

10. On line functionality on the software that will control and verify your copy each time you launch it.

11. If you run Linux and install free software, you won't have to worry about this ever again!

12. Most of free (as in free speech) software is free (as in free beer).

13. You can find a free replacement for most of the commercial software out there.

15. Adobe Illustrator (~$500) Inkscape Yes

16. Adobe InDesign (~$700) Scribus Yes

17. Adobe Photoshop (~$600) The GIMP Yes

18. Adobe Premiere (~$800) Kino, Cinelerra No

19. Adobe Reader (free) Evince, Kpdf, GV No

20. Apple iTunes (free) AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee No

21. MSOffice (~$600) OpenOffice Yes

23. Microsoft Windows Media Player (free) Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine Yes

24. MSN Messenger (free) Pidgin, Kopete, aMSN Yes

25. Nero (~$100) K3b, Gnomebaker No

26. Palm Desktop (free) Gnome-Pilot, KPilot No

27. Quark XPress (~$800) Scribus Yes

28. QuickTime Player (free) Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine Yes

29. Winamp (free) AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee No

32. Linux makes it very hard for this to happen

33. Linux uses smart authorization management. In Windows you usually have the right to do pretty much anything to the system.

34. Linux doesn't allow that. Viruses can't just go around and delete or modify what they want in the system; they don't have the authorization for that.

35. More eyes make fewer security flaws.

36. Freedom

38. "free license", and the most common is the GPL

39. Anyone allowed copy the software, see source code, modify it, and redistribute ,as long as it remains licensed with the GPL.

40. With Open Source, if a particular project or support company dies, all the code remains open to the community and people can keep improving it.

41. If a bug annoys you, you can report it or you can fix it yourself, and send the changes back to the upstream so that everyone gets the improvement as well. You're free to do (nearly) whatever you want with the software.

44. Microsoft probably doesn't do that, but how would you know, since everything is closed, invisible, secret?

45. The recipes are public. People who understand it can read it, and speak out.

46. That's why you can be sure open source software doesn't do bad things behind your back: the community keeps a close eye on all the recipes.

48. A very fast and standalone installation process. .

49. Out-of-the-box ready peripherals.

50. Less harm for the planet because all these CDs don't need to come with hardware any more (well, at least once Windows don't need them either...).

52. Fooled you: Linux can do better, for free, and with much less demanding hardware requirements.

55. Linux is freely downloadable from the Internet; no amount of plastic or paper is involved.

56. As the hardware requirements for Windows or Mac OS get higher and higher, a lot of computers are made obsolete, and would need to be disposed of... but since Linux runs pretty well even on very old machines, they can be recycled for various purposes instead of being thrown out!