Wednesday, April 27, 2011

WINDOWS VS LINUX

Linux was originally developed by Linus Torvalds originally was a kernel or core of the operating system. Today, Linux is a complete operating system. Linux CD now contains the operating system plus general office applications, multimedia, and Internet. The original MS Windows CD only contains an operating system, not including MS Office, Photoshop image processing, Exchange email server, etc., unless the CD pirated copy.
Linux licensing terms are often used is non-proprietary, open source, free software and GPL (GNU General Public License) which means almost the same: you are free to use, learn and develop (as available source code) and distribute, to anything, including for nuclear installations. Windows, Macintosh and proprietary programs are closed source, non free software and non-GPL.dan sure there are some differences again are: 1. Virus Almost all the viruses that attack the access of the Internet is a virus for MS Windows. Viruses are very difficult to develop on Linux computers. Viruses are created for Windows does not destroy Linux. Not that there are no viruses in Linux, but the virus (more appropriately called a worm or worm) that ever existed, only attacking the Linux servers that are less well maintained or late in the update security.
2. Internet You certainly already know Google.com or Detik.com. Representing the region and reach a much different, the two companies have long been using Linux. Google is very famous in the world and Seconds are very popular in Indonesia. To serve the many extraordinary access, Google uses many computers with Linux operating system and programs of other open source. According to a survey conducted www.netcraft.com, more than 60% of the domain on the Internet using open source Apache web server. E-mail server of the most widely used on the Internet is an open source version like Sendmail, Postfix, and Qmail. Server DNS (Domain Name System) service that translates Internet addresses into domain names are also using open source programs such as Bind. In Indonesia, almost all the ISPs (Internet Service Provider), NAP (Network Access Provider) and Data Center using Linux and other open source software as the backbone network. Starting from routers, firewalls, DNS servers, web, email, and databases using open source software.
3. GUI Windows only has one GUI (Graphical User Interface) and can not live without a GUI. Linux does not have Windows, but had a "window-window" or X-Window. That is, we can simultaneously run multiple GUI, such as KDE (like Windows XP), GNOME (similar to Windows Me), IceWM (like Windows 95/98), fvwm (like Windows 3.11), and others. More great again, Linux can live without a GUI. Linux-based servers, such as qmail mail server which is equivalent MS Exchange servers, can work well on a computer Pentium I or the more ancient, with the RAM 64 MB or smaller. Linux has a TUI (Text User Interface) to administer the system, for example YaST in SUSE and drakxconf in Mandriva, which can run without X Window System. Linux can have a GUI like Windows XP with hardware that is equivalent to the requirements for Windows XP, for example at least Pentium III, 128 MB RAM, and so forth.
4. Office Applications Office applications are popular in the world of Windows when it was MS Office, except that there are WordPerfect, Lotus, AbiWord and OpenOffice. AbiWord and OpenOffice is open source or free software, such as those available for Linux. Linux office suite OpenOffice is the most popular nowadays because it is very compatible with MS Office. In addition there is the KDE KOffice but not yet fully compatible with MS Office. AbiWord and Gnumeric are approaching equality with MS Word and MS Excel are also available free on Linux. Unfortunately, users do not find MS Access database that is very similar to Access in the OpenOffice version 1.x. However, OpenOffice can access MySQL or PostgreSQL via ODBC, so that there is "opportunity" MS Access users to enhance their ability to SQL databases, but not to MS SQL. OpenOffice version 2 already provides a database such as Access. If you usually use Visio in Windows, you can choose Him or Kivio on Linux. Microsoft Project can be replaced Planner (Mr. Project). While simple accounting program in Linux is GnuCash. A good office applications in Windows are usually very expensive, such as Lotus Notes and Domino. In Linux, there are a variety of similar applications, though not exactly the same.
5. Multimedia Linux currently has penetrated into the multimedia world, ranging from just a multimedia player, audio and video editors, animators, or to manufacture up to movies like Shrek are very famous. As a player, or a song and video player, Linux requires the specification that is not too heavy. To run an audio-CDs (CDA), MP3 or OGG files, Linux can work on a 486 with 32 MB RAM, of course without the GUI is beautiful. Some player songs that include mpg123, ogg123, cdplay, and playmus. Even for memutarlagu and video (DVD, VCD or DAT, and MPEG), Linux can work without having to install to the hard disk, such as Inul-Linux, which Linux distribution e-Movix, which contains the Linux operating system and Mplayer, with a total size of only about 7 MB. Still with low hardware, Linux can function as an audio editor, for example by ecasound. With good hardware specification, Linux can also be used to edit the audio in the X Window like Audacity, or edit the video with Kino, Kdenlive, Cinelerra, CinePaint, iMeraEditing, etc.. For business graphics multimedia, Linux has many options to create or edit images. There is GIMP for bitmap or raster image processing, there Sodipodi, Skencil, and Inkscape for vector drawing painting, etc.. GIMP equivalent to Photoshop and the like, while the equivalent Sodipodi CorelDraw, FreeHand, etc..