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The Linux distillery 100 reasons Linux beats Windows
The Linux distillery 100 reasons Linux beats Windows | 100 reasons Linux beats Windows |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Sunday, 28 September 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 5 21. Linux is the a major OS in high performance computing. The first computer to break the petaflop barrier – one quadrillion calculations per second – was an IBM supercomputer running Linux.Featured Whitepaper
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23. Linux will revitalise your old hardware, with snappy performance. 24. It’ll make better use of your modern hardware, too, delivering faster performance and better memory management than Windows. 25. There’s no such thing as having to “routinely reboot” your Linux servers. 26. If you need an office suite you can just download Open Office and get going. There’s no extra purchase involved. 27. If you need a desktop publishing package you can just download Scribus and get going. There’s no extra purchase involved. 28. The Linux check for software updates will update everything – not just the operating system or vendor-supplied apps. It will facilitate updating all your software, in one convenient spot. 29. You don’t have to lust after software you can’t afford. The software is given away. 30. You don’t have to pirate software you can’t afford. The software is given away. 31. Linux is far easier to configure. There’s no complex, obscure, registry nor are settings and configuration items hidden in a multitude of different locations. 32. By the same token, all your own personal program settings are stored in your home directory. It’s a doddle to move them to a new computer and retain your environment how you like it. 33. Linux is open. If there’s a security problem you’ll know all the details. There’s much greater transparency. 34. You don’t suffer vendor lock-in with Linux. You’re not dependent on one single body or entity to keep it going. 35. Linux is versatile. You can run the exact same distribution on a 32-bit system, a 64-bit system, a MIPS server, a Sparc workstation and other architectures. You’ll find things exactly the same, working to the best the hardware offers. 36. Linux user groups are abundant with people wanting to help solve any issues you experience as well as share tips and ideas. 37. Linux encourages you to learn more about your computer and how to make better and better use of it. 38. Linux is usable. The default interface works, but if you like you can customise it to look and act like Windows XP. Or MacOS. Or something else. In fact, it’s easier for a Windows XP user to adapt to Linux than to Windows Vista. 39. Linux is advancing at a rate that a closed development project like Microsoft Windows is unable to sustain. There is a massive quality and quantity of feedback coming in from the field, there is a short development cycle from the coders through to the end user. Independently developed open source subsystems are frequently incorporated. All this combines to give Linux quantum advances in a short time. 40. Linux doesn’t crash without any apparent reasons. A crashing web browser can’t render your system unusable. CONTINUED |
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