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1. Yes, you CAN configure windows to allow multiple connections via RDP, but unless you’re using terminal server or a similar technology, it’s not supported by the OS. UNIX doesn’t have this problem.

2. MS didn’t give up anything for usability; instead they are trying (desperately) to maintain the backward compatibility feel (since it’s not 100% true backward compatibility) this is why you must run in administrator mode almost all the time… because the system was designed to run with 1 (administrative) user at a time. UNIX was always designed to share resources, so it does so quite well.

3. Admitted or not, Microsoft has a patching cycle every single month; OpenBSD hasn’t had a (major) vulnerability in YEARS (or patching cycle for that matter) I admit that this is an unfair comparison, but the root of this all is that UNIX is open source, so, should you find an error, it’s more likely that you’ll fix it and include it in the next release. where windows must rely on third parties to provide input as to where the problems could lay, and then they have to research it’s problem in code, then provide a fix.

4. Performance INCLUDES ram usage. So if you have to provide equal machines, UNIX will outperform every time.

5. Windows was designed in a way that makes it very user friendly, however, I don’t see you discussing Mac OS/X (a UNIX derivative) and arguably way more friendly than Windows.

6. I take it you’ve never used the apache port for windows before, it’s actually quite trivial to host apache pages on windows. it’s when you start getting to specific scripting languages and web frameworks where you start running into problems.

7. again this is misleading, you can’t host, for example, a MS-SQL database on UNIX, though you can connect to it through UNIXODBC. So this is mostly a dig at MS-SQL, but, if you use a framework like .NET you can’t use anything else. If you use, php, for example you can use any other database.

8. except for your gripe about ie9-server, I think the author is pointing out that all linuxes and most other UNIX-like systems have a HUGE database of software that you can install (as if it’s part of the OS) for free and easily. Windows does not have this, though some would argue that this isn’t a weakness but a strength. Personally I like that my UNIX OS will vet it’s applications through their own programs to make sure that each app functions as expected in your environment.

9. again, just because you CAN do it, doesn’t mean it’s supported. UNIX is well documented and well supproted running from a CD. Windows, you CAN run from CD, but if you hit a problem MS won’t help you. On the other hand, if you have UNIX, and you’re running it from a CD and you run into problems company support contract (such as redhat) will assist you. QED to you!

10. listing all kinds of filesystems won’t get you anywhere here. The author of this site is in fact very right. While NTFS journaling wasn’t introduced until 2001, whereas UNIX has had journalling in the mid 90′s and nobody uses ext2 since ext3 journaling was introduced.

11. NTFS3 does not actually layout the hard disk any differently, though they do have a journal like system their filesystem suffers as much fragmentation as it ever did. You should realize this since windows provides you with a “fragmentation tool” and UNIX does not.

12. Development for windows is incredibly different than for unix. To the point that the APIs are so vastly different that porting becomes quite a difficult task. Cygwin was designed as a POSIX layer on windows, not to port unix, but just to provide the functionality that windows does not offer. Wine, on the other hand, provides an emulation layer.

13. why didn’t you point out that you can put your user data wherever you want windows, even mouting the /Users or /Documents and Settings directories on separate partitions!!! I’ve done this, and managed to migrate windows users with very little problems at all. And actually UNIX is easier to migrate BECAUSE all it’s data is in /etc or /var for the applications. no registry settings to export, import or touch up, no GPO settings to reproduce, simple easy text files, with simple, well documented, configurations.

14. what? listen man, just because all the hardware YOU see is x86 or ARM doesn’t mean that’s all there is!!!! I work at an enterprise where they have a whole slew of UltraSPARC systems, PowerPC minicomputers, ALPHA systems, OS/400 systems and literally hundreds of Motorola MC68000 Cisco networking devices. All of which will run Linux, none of which will run windows. Broaden your mind!

15. UNIX does run on way more hardware types than windows, yet windows does have a huge market share of hardware.

16. He’s talking about graphics here, not headless… anything can run headless but can you run windows with ONLY a serial port and a dumb terminal? no! you CAN run unix in this way!

17. Genuine unix is truly a thing of the past, however you can get a true unix related to the original unix from anywhere for free (any BSD is a direct descendant of AT&T system 5 – INCLUDING OS/X) so if you want to count this you can.

very needful step did you allow me for acces database creation.

And the commentor above me has slightly different views on certain things, but I think that we are close enough that the differences are mainly due to opinion. etc anti-spyware et al.

1. UNIX is better at this, but it is possible with Windows. Multiple RDP sessions and all.

2. Kinda, MS gave up security for usability. Windows you normally run as Admin, UNIX it is greatly frowned upon… Windows prefers user-friendly over security. Sad but true.

3. I wouldn’t say that, UNIX is simply known for admitting errors and fixing them as quickly as possible. Debian SSH incident comes to mind.

4. False. Not true at all. Windows uses far more RAM than UNIX does.

However, under high load, UNIX is superior to Windows.
Depends, you give Windows far more RAM and it’ll end up about the same. (in terms of CPU)

5. I agree, Windows is idiot-friendly. But UNIX is user-friendly. Windows does all it can to lock you to a few specific tools, that have nice interfaces. UNIX gives you the reigns and says “she’s all yours!”
If you are browsing the web, checking email, they are almost the same. You will probably run into a few cases in UNIX where you need to dip down into the shell though. And once you realize that it usually only takes one or two simple commands to fix the worst mistakes, and that google is rife with information about them, you wonder how you ever put up with Windows… I did anyways.

6. False. Mostly False… It would take a lot of effort, but it is possible to take apache web pages and make windows serve them. The reverse is also true, unless you are using non-standard tools like asp.net. Totally not worth it though. Redesign would make everything much better.

7. It’s… It’s a database. There are a ton of them. MySQL, NoSQl, MSSQL, Hell even filesystems are databases of a sort. NTFS, and Ext are both pseudo databases. Unless Windows managed to lock you into one database, or another proprietary application locked you down, there isn’t anything stopping you from switching. Yeah, one might be better/faster/more reliable, but that doesn’t force you to use it. =P

8. Mostly false. UNIX has a very clean seperation between the OS and the applications. Windows, not so much. It used to be the case that removing IE would take half of the networking with it. And there’s no way that you could argue that IE is anything else other than an application. And Windows provides updates for it. I particularly hate IE9 server edition. No javascript! ever! (you have to whitelist the individual domain. Which is not useful at all when you are trying to download a program and it takes you thirty minutes of digging through the js code to realize the download is hosted by a third-party…)

9. True, and False. Windows can run without installing. It’s just not supported. Hiram’s BootDisk. QED.

10. I can’t even let you get away with a blanket statement like that… dos, fat, vfat, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, jfs, xfs, ntfs, ntfs(win 7 version which is different but stupidly named the same thing.) About half of these are journaled, half are journaling optional. The main filesystem for UNIX derivatives(I’ll get to that soon) is ext[2|3|4]. ext2 is not journaled. The other two have journaling as an option that defaults to true. So 10 is just plain wrong anyway you look at it.

11. False. Linux Filesystems suffer fragmentation too. They just take greater pains to fix the problems while the data is being written to the disk, and also when no disk access is occuring. NTFS(old) just tries to get the data to the disk as quick as possible, fragmentation be da**ed. NTFS(new) goes the UNIX route and suffers about as much as UNIX does.

12. Change ‘some’ to ‘Pretty much all’ and you woud be correct. UNIX and Windows give two different sets of tools that developers can use. And there are ports of both to the other OS. Ever heard of the Wine project and cygwin? Wine aims to let windows programs run natively by giving them all(enough) of the windows API. cygwin does the same for UNIX, with the exception that programs will have to be recompiled. Also the Mono project, and moonlight… And sometimes Java works, and Python will work as long as you don’t do anything OS specific…

13. Yeah, That one is spot on. I’ve reinstalled linux SOO many times, but got to keep all my data and settings since i put /home on a different partition. Just move the data back in place. Windows is kind of a nightmare..Had to migrate users once.. Took about 5 hours before I realized the reason that it kept failing was the windows claimed it was copying everything, but in reality it was leaving quite a bit of needed data (configuration stuff) behind. You have to go to safe mode and literally scrape it off the HD… That’s totally biased, but that has been my experience.

“On the other hand, Windows stores data anywhere in the hard disk making it hard to backup files when switching to a new computer.”
Well, the same could be true of UNIX couldn’t it? you got your system config files in /etc, your ‘volatile data’ in /var, etc… User data is easy to move. all of the other stuff? not a chance.

14. Not quite true, UNIX does run on pretty much everything, but 99% of hardware is x86, or ARM nowadays, and windows has ports for both of those so…

15. Up for debate, I would make the claim that the opposite is true, simply because UNIX runs on more CPU types. Plus UNIX is not dependant on third-party drivers, and it keeps pretty much any driver that it once found useful. BUT, Windows usually has faster support for certain things, like graphics cards.

16. UNIX does run headless, but so can Windows. Windows still starts the graphics, and opens a graphical command prompt with a mouse. and background. So it’s not really headless… Plus Windows does far more in the background than UNIX. After all, Windows has to worry about whether you pirated it, and whether or not it has viruses.

17. No such thing as genuine UNIX anymore. UNIX was proprietary, and it’s pretty much dead. However, UNIX did leave us the POSIX standards. Which let us decide how certain programs should act. Which makes it very easy to port from Solaris to Mac to Linux to etc.. It’s far harder to port between OS’s that do not agree on the same standards.

I don’t know if I would agree that this article is biased, more that is was written by someone who has only a cursory understanding of the differences.

Each OS has it’s place, And I tried to be as fair as possible while still allowing for my personal preference. Please correct me if you notice something that is just blatantly not true.

Man, this is a great post! This is by far the the easiest way to put Flash on LM12. LM 12 Live CD is great to start with, this makes it greater!

Thanks for this advice! It was very useful. I am having to use Linux Mint 12 Live CD while I repair a corrupt Windows 7 installation.

Windows 7 makes it a living nightmare trying to slipstream/add multiple mass storage drivers, even more so than previous Windows version.

Linux, on the other hand, instantly saw my Areca 1280 RAID controller and Windows-formatted drives and I’m being productive even as my machine is technically “down” for repair!

/etc/rc.local is in debian sir, has been. no idea why these jive turkeys say it isnt, unless they are running some ancient debian/ubuntu distro from the 90s. :)

Thank you for your interest, Royce. I’d be happy to post content from others that promotes more of that good, Linux love!