thank you for your time Ronan
For your insite on networking with linux I am college
student and I help out at a local computer shop in
town I am looking to network a small amount of
computers what brand of linux would you recommend I
hear that redhat is used mostly in enterprise and
small businesses Is there tutoruals on the net to
help learn the basics of operating linux ??
--- Ronan Heffernan <ronan@iotcorp.com> wrote:
> casey fraites wrote:
> > Thank you guys for your responces how flexiable
> is
> > it to network with linux what are the advantages
> vs
> > windows?
>
> The biggest advantage is stability. I have been
> using Linux on multiple
> machines for 9+ years, and it NEVER crashes (unless
> your underlying
> hardware fails (RAM, Hard Drive, Power Supply,
> etc.)). There is no Blue
> Screen of Death. There is no sudden, "Beep-Beep
> I'm rebooting now,
> surprise!". Other benefits include:
>
> * Cost: Up-front costs can be free (if you want
> to use a free distro
> like Debian (but it is harder for a newbie to use)).
> Even if you choose
> one of the non-free distros, they cost less than
> Windows and you can
> install them on as many computers as you own without
> paying more. The
> "Total Cost of Ownership" of running a business on
> Linux is also lower
> (this includes administration, maintenance, tech
> support costs, license
> management and accounting, etc.)
>
> * Speed: Linux is usually faster than Windows on
> any given computer.
> One real advantage of this is that you aren't
> required to upgrade your
> hardware very often. A four year old computer won't
> even run Windows
> XP, is fast enough to run Linux quite nicely.
>
> * Security: Linux is more secure (against
> outside crackers) than
> Windows has proven to be. At least until now, there
> is no problem with
> viruses for Linux. Partly this is because Linux is
> less popular, so the
> virus writers are not rushing to write Linux
> viruses. However, the
> multi-user architecture of Linux is also resistant
> to viruses. Only the
> root user can erase important system files, so a
> normal user cannot run
> a virus and damage the system. If you accidently
> run a virus as a
> normal user, the virus can only erase your personal
> files. Under
> Windows, a virus can easily make your system
> unbootable (requiring a
> full install from scratch).
>
> * Other: There are many other advantages that
> accrue to the industry
> and software developers, that users never see. The
> politics of Open
> Source software impact the end users by delivering
> higher quality, fair
> licensing restrictions, long-term availability of
> solutions, the freedom
> to choose between many different vendors,
> transparency in bug reporting
> and tracking, etc.
>
>
> *** NOTE: Most of these advantages in stability,
> speed, and security are
> common to UNIX in general, not just Linux. That is
> because all of these
> measures are expressed in relative terms: fastER,
> safER, MORE stable;
> the real problem is that among all of the Operating
> Systems in the
> world, Microsoft software is garbage.
>
>
> --ronan
>
>
>
>
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