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.

Hexadecimal,

There are sources to purchase copies of the downloadable versions of the distrubutions.
Check out http://www.cheapbytes.com They burn CDs of the download sites and provide them at a much cheaper price than the connect cost for a 56K modem. You don't get all of the goodies of the shrink wrapped box, but you get enough to learn and rate the various distro's. When you find the one you like, feel free to support them with a purchase of the registered version.

Thanks for the link dude! looks like alot of good stuff :D

[flip]-ndog[/flip]

sWifty: I think it would have been easier for us to see it via "View Source." Oh.. I forgot. Ya wanna be 1337. :chuck:

1.Linux is under an open-source lisense.
2.Linux is more stable.
3.File systems are completely different.
4.Drivers are different.
5.it's free.

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Someone gave my post negative anitpoints with the comment:

"the administrator account isn't a superuser account?"

I think this is an important issue to clear up as many peopel are unclear and this is not just to complain about antipoints so don't worry. ;)

The Super User issue is a very imporant architecutal difference beteween UN*X and NT. In UN*X the root account is the super user account and it is so named because it actually exists _outside_ the operating system's security policy. If you don't believe me, try opening a file that you do not have permissions on as root. It will open just fine. Try the same thing in NT. You will be denied access. NT's admin account only has the privleges assigned to it in the security policy. For example, you can revoke its "Take Ownership" abilities and this makes it much more like a normal user.
NT features what is known as the segregation of Administrators and Operators and this is why its audit trail meets TCSEC audit trail B2 requirements. (the system as a whole is not B2 of cause due to it's lack of MAC among other things) It is possible withing the security policy alone to deny the Admin account access to various things, eg. logs. The same limitations cannot be achived in UN*X via the security policy alone and frequently special file system settings or atypical kernel configurations need to be used.

I hope this clears things up. :)

catch