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Linux Against Microsoft Windows
Linux is a free operating system that was developed on the internet.It was formed by Linus Torvalds first,then he put its source code to his web page.After that,the internet hackers and the programmers developed it.It is a Unix-like operating system because it is the main reason to develop the Linux.By the time,it becomes a big organization and now it is a powerful, advanced operating system.It has an important feature that is not available for other operating systems.You can run Linux with other operating systems like MacOS, DOS,Windows 95, Windows NT, Novell, OS/2 on the same machine.It is an advantage of linux that a user can easily compare Linux with other operating systems.
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So you can run Linux only 8Mb of ram and 16Mb of swap place.Windows requires at least 16Mb of ram(32Mb is recommended).Linux can be used by users that have limited systems.Multi-user capabilities of Linux provides to share one computer’s resources by hundreds of people over a network, the internet or on computers and terminals connected the serial port of those computers. By this you can connect your computer or laptop to another computer and you can use it.Multi-user capability of windows is limited. You can only transfer files from other computer.Linux has all the features that you can expect from an operating system.(Windows Inside&Out, Slackware Linux Unleashed 3rd Edition)
Internet features of Linux make it more popular. Linux was developed on the irternet so it has a wide support for internet tools and protocols. A free e-mail software called pine comes with Linux.It was developed at University of Washington and it has all features of a mail program. There is also a free software called telnet. With telnet you can connect a computer with its IP number through internet. The famous web browser Netscape comes with Linux free.You can surf on the internet with Netscape.It has all properties of Netscape that is used on Windows and it is easy to surf on the internet as Windows. There is also a browser called Archie comes with Linux free too. Linux has support for FTP(File

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