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  • One makes bill gates richer
  • Apples and Oranges. They are both operating systems for computers, but they are designed in very different ways. Your question would take a book to explain.
  • "Comparison of Windows and Linux (two computer operating systems) has become a common topic of discussion among their users. Windows is the most prominent operating system released under a proprietary software license (though selected business partners may receive a shared source license), whereas Linux is the most prominent operating system released under a free software license. (However, most Linux distributions distribute proprietary components.[1]) The two operating systems compete for user-base in the personal computer market as well as the server market, and are used in government offices, schools, business offices, homes, intranet and internet servers, supercomputers, and embedded systems. Historically, Windows has tended to dominate in the desktop and personal computer markets (about 90% of the desktop market share), and Linux has achieved between 50─80% market share of the web server, render farm, and supercomputer markets.[2] They differ in philosophy, cost, ease of use, versatility, and stability, with each seeking to improve in their perceived weak areas. Comparisons of the two tend to reflect the origins, historic user base and distribution model of each. Typically, some major areas of perceived weaknesses regularly cited have included the poor ease of “out-of-box” mass-market use for Linux regarding the desktop, and poor system stability for Windows, both of which are areas of rapid development in the two camps. The perceived key strength of Linux is that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. Because of its collaborative development model Linux has achieved a high degree of openness and configurability while adhering to ISO and IEEE standards, whereas Windows has a careful anticipation of mass-market user requirements and has created shifting “standardization” around its products through market dominance." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux
  • It's is a difficult question to answer, becuase it is women and men. One is emotional and releases the product before it's ready with everything open and the other is logical it only runs what it needs and shuts down the emotions (services)that it doesn't need until it's time or never. First, check the salaries of a UNIX and Linux admin then do your research. Then download VMWare and install both and do your own comparison.
  • The way Windows is developed, marketed and delivered is driven by a business strategy, aimed at maximizing market penetration and profit. New versions attempt to offer new features that the company thinks the user community will accept. The way Linux is developed and delivered (notice the lack of marketing) is driven by a culture, aimed at maximizing usefulness and customization. New versions attempt to offer new features that the user community asked for.
  • "If you have Windows PCs on your home network and have no pressing reason to use NFS (Network File System) support to share files, then read no farther. NFS is actually more robust than Samba, but it is also more complicated depending upon what features are used. From a basic point of view, NFS and Samba are very similar. Both have a client and server application. Both allow a server to share files with clients. Both have clients and servers on almost every platform. The big difference is the Windows PCs have Samba-compatible clients and servers as part of their default network support and Windows requires third party software to support NFS. Conversely, UNIX systems usually come with and use NFS by default with Samba being used to provide file sharing with Windows PCs. Perhaps the biggest difference between NFS and Samba is that NFS uses an explicit resource browser capability. This means that an NFS client can poll a particular server using the showmount program, as in showmount -e fileserver, to see what directories have been exported. Samba clients do this as well using NetBIOS but they can also determine what servers are available as well. The showmount program must be given the domain name or IP address of the server."

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