Linux vs.

Windows
 Program

● Definitions
● Brief History
● Advantages and Disadvantages
● Usage
● Forecast
 Definitions

● OSS: Open Source Software

● GPL: General Public License
● Linux: only Kernel -> doesn't actually interact with
the user
● LiveCD: Runs from the CD (Knoppix, Slax)
 Definitions

● OSS: Open Source Software

● GPL: General Public License
● Linux: only Kernel -> doesn't actually interact with
the user
● LiveCD: Runs from the CD (Knoppix, Slax)
● Distro: (Distribution) Compilation of Software, current:
(K)Ubuntu, Suse, Debian, Red Hat
● Linux pinguin: Tux
 Brief History Of Windows

● Disk Operating System (DOS): 1981

● First GUI in 1985
● Windows 3.11 in 1992
● Windows 95 in 1995, first real desk-
top system
● 1998 Win 98, 2000 Win 2000 & Me
● 2001 Win XP
● 2007 Win Vista (announced 2004...)
 Brief History Of Linux

● 1983 OSS UNIX, but never achieved...

● Terminal Emulator, ended up as OS
● Minix * 1991, Linus Torvald is its father
● Renamed into Linux, 1992 under GNU GPL
● originally only the Kernel
● first only console based; 1994 first GUI
● 1998 birth of big disrtibutors: Debian, Red Hat
● 2004 birth of Ubuntu
 Design

● Linux: Console based

● Windows: GUI based
 Design

● Linux: Different WindowManager; Windows: only one

 Design

● Linux: Different WindowManager; Windows: only one

● Linux: modular and free chose
● Windows: proprietary, Click & Run
 Advantages of Linux

● full control (even without GUI)

● very reliable
● huge choice, you aren't bond
● super for programming
 Advantages of Windows

● huge choice
-> specialized prgm
-> also commercial
● Click & Run
● Game-PC
● widely known by user
 Disadvantages of Linux

● full control: complex, complicated, risk of a mess!!

● no games: WoW, CounterStrike, Age Of Empire
● no native drivers: graphic card, NTFS
 Disadvantages of Windows

● Takes the user as a baby

-> impossible configuration
-> only with workaround possible
● widely spreaded
-> virii
-> vulns
● complex programming in C/C++
● extremly expensive!!
 Usage

LINUX
● webserver
● research
WINDOWS
● enterprise
● privat -> gaming
 Forecast for Linux

● Webserver appliance
● go for broad use -> simplify
● go for even more reliability
● will win some market share
 Forecast for Windows

● keep monopol for privat -> gaming

● go for design -> Vista
 Forecast for Windows

● keep monopol for privat -> gaming

● go for design -> Vista
● go for simplicity (esp. DAU)
● will be target of attacks
● price will rise
● will lose some market share
 Final Words

● Try yourself! -> Live CDs

● Observe

● Questions?
● Remarks?

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