Linux vs. Windows
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Linux and Microsoft Windows are often seen as competitors, with Linux being cheaper (often free) but less reliable.
Links
- 2006-03-19 Ubuntu, Macintosh and Windows XP (slashdot): a comparison
- Windows vs. Linux: comparative screenshots
- Windows Supports More Hardware but Linux Supports It Better
- Get the Facts on Windows Server and Linux: a collection of studies showing the superiority of Windows (with emphasis on Server flavors) over Linux
- EMA Study: Get the Truth on Linux Management: rebuttal to pro-Windows studies
- Linux is Not Windows: a rebuttal to recent Windows-to-Linux converts who want Linux to be more like Windows
Commentary
- 2007-01-26 Why I Don’t Run Windows: an ongoing series of blog entries by Aaron Toponce, with several comparisons to Linux
- 2006-12-26 (updated) World Domination by Eric S. Raymond and Rob Landley: strategy for Linux to wrest domination of the desktop market away from Windows by 2008 (a hard deadline)
- 2006-08-31 Anybody But Microsoft: Diving into OpenOffice and Linux, by James E. Gaskin
- 2006-08-21 Inconsistent GUIs on Linux: "It’s a commonly repeated opinion that on Linux all application GUIs look different, but on Windows all/most applications feel like Windows applications."
- 2006-08-17 They still don’t get it... by J Greely
- 2006-05-15 Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? (Slashdot)
News
- 2007-02-20 Cuba to use open-source software: Cuba is switching from Windows to Linux
Milestones
- 2003-08-20 Rockin' on without Microsoft: without warning, guitar-string company Ernie Ball was forced to pony up $100,000 for being about 8% "out of compliance" with their licensing of Windows. They decided to drop Windows and go with Red Hat Linux, and they have never regretted it.