WebCab Solutions - Disertation on Linux

The key inquiry which any IT managers must consider is whether to use a Windows or Unix platform. The term Unix covers a family of operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, BSDI, Digital Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, NetBSD, OPENBSD, and SunOS to name the most common.

With their marketing style Microsoft's Products increased in popularity. But are they the best for what a server needs and most of all, which operating system will bring you more efficiency, productivity, speed, reliability and of course, money?

This article is not meant to be a comparison between Unix operating system and Microsoft's. In fact, its sole reason for existence (until I get feedback from you) is to show you the possibilities of the Linux Operating System and to give some answers to some common lies about this. For everyone who wants to see lots of articles about "Unix versus Windows" feel free to visit www.unix-vs-nt.org.

Linux is maybe the most important free software project ever. Started by a young student, Linus Torvalds and continued by thousands other peoples, Linux developed into a full operating system, for servers especially, but, in the past 2 years, in a very good desktop system. Linux can be used for business, education, science and almost every other domain a computer can be used. Although Linux was developed as a professional network-oriented system (being an Unix style OS), the latest developments brought it on the desktop. Despite the relative hard work in configuring it, some of the latest distributions made great efforts in developing easy-to-use software to ease the set up of this operating system. We will try to ask a few questions that you may ask about this system: