期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-4333
电子版ISSN：0976-8491
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：220-223
语种：English
出版社：Ayushmaan Technologies
摘要：Today’s Operating Systems (OS) are much more advanced in termsof usability, ease of use, hardware compatibility and performance.The major player in the desktop OS market is Microsoft Windows.While Microsoft claims that windows is the fastest operatingsystem, but the open source communities like those of Linux havedemonstrated using proofs that Linux is much faster than windowsin various aspects. Also, with the advent of viruses, security issueswere raised in front of windows which drew people’s attentiontowards Linux. The recent advancements in Linux have made itmuch more user friendly and compatible with most of the hardwareplatforms. This paper basically explains the distributions of Linuxand performance differences of windows and Linux in similarenvironments.
