WINDOWS vs. LINUX

hello all of you there

I have to make a report on 5 (five) architectural differences between windows family of operating systems and linux family of operating systems.

well am blank

any one who can help???????????

thanx in advance

cheers

Five differences would be:

1. Filesystems
2. Device drivers
3. Hardware support
4. System services
5. User interfaces


Hope that helps, or at least gives you a starting point.


--PuRe

Hey here's a site that will blow your mind. haha
A lot of info though, great if you really are looking for some hard answers.

http://cs.uml.edu/~cgould/

I'll assume you mean the NT windows line and not the SUE line.

NT lacks a super user account.
NT has a completely different authentication subsystem.
NT features a seperation an administrators and operators (this is part of the first item but is important in and of itself)
NT has a completely different audit trail.

Although Pure listed many differnces, I am not sure they would be considered architectural differences.

Hope these help you get started, if you need more help feel free to ask...

catch

I would like to thank all of you for your help, that was very usefull for me.

cheers

sorry i dont hav any advise for you but this is very helpfull im currently wating for my next allowence (which my dad owes me from january) so i can buy red hat linux :D

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Originally posted here by hexadecimal
sorry i dont hav any advise for you but this is very helpfull im currently wating for my next allowence (which my dad owes me from january) so i can buy red hat linux :D

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cool, glad someone is contributing monetarily to the open source world...

Er0k, I have bought every Linux distro i have, and even bought some and gave them to other hacking friends, just wanted you to know theres more people like us than you might think :)

hehe thats good to hear.

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Originally posted here by rmlj63
Hey here's a site that will blow your mind. haha
A lot of info though, great if you really are looking for some hard answers.

http://cs.uml.edu/~cgould/

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Awesome link! Thanks a heap.