What are the General features of windows operating system?

Answer 1

Linux has evolved to have the following features as an outstanding operating system which is strong in security and networking.

• Multitasking: Several programs can run at the same time.

•Multiuser: Several users can logon to the same machine at the same time There is no need to have separate user licenses.

• Multiplatform: Linux runs on many different CPUs, that means it supports multiprocessor machine.

• Multithreading: Linux has native kernel support for multiple independent threads of control within a single process memory space.

•Crash proof: Linux has memory protection between processes, so that one program can't bring the whole system down.

•Demand loads executables: Linux only reads from those parts of a program that are actually used on the disk.

•Shared copy-on-write pages among executables: This means that multiple processes can use the same memory to run in. When one tries to write to that memory, that page (with 4KB piece of memory) is copied somewhere else. Copy-on-write has two benefits: increasing speed and decreasing memory use.

• Virtual memory uses paging (not swapping whole processes) to disk to a separate partition or a file in the file system, or both, with the possibility of adding more swapping areas during runtime (yes, they're still called swapping areas). A total of 16 of these 128 MB (2GB in recent kernels) swapping areas can be used at the same time, for a theoretical total of 2 GB of usable swap space. It is simple to increase this if necessary, by changing a few lines of source code.

•Linux has a unified memory pool for user programs and disk cache, so that all free memory can be used for caching, and the cache can be reduced when running large programs.

• Linux does core dumps for post-mortem analysis, allowing the use of a debugger on a program not only while it is running but also after it has crashed.

• Linux is mostly compatible with POSIX, System V, and BSD at the source level.

• Through an iBCS2-compliant emulation module, Linux is mostly compatible with SCO, SVR3, and SVR4 at the binary level.

• Free and Open source code for all: All source code of Linux is available, including the whole kernel and all drivers, the development tools and all user programs; also, all of it is freely distributable. Plenty of commercial programs are being provided for Linux without source, but everything that has been free, including the entire base operating system, is still free.

• Linux supports pseudoterminals (pty's) and multiple virtual consoles: By several independent login sessions through the console, you can switch between by pressing a hot-key combination (not dependent on video hardware). These are dynamically allocated; you can use up to 64.

• Linux supports several common file systems, including minix, Xenix, and all the common system V file systems, and has an advanced file system of its own, which offers file systems of up to 4 TB, and names up to 255 characters long.

• Linux has a transparent access to MS-DOS partitions (or OS/2 FAT partitions) via a special file system:.You don't need any special commands to use the MS-DOS partition, it looks just like a normal Unix file system (except for funny restrictions on file names, permissions, and so on). MS-DOS 6 compressed partitions do not work at this time without a patch (dmsdosfs). Also VFAT (WNT, Windows 95) support and FAT-32 is available in Linux 2.0

• Linux has CD-ROM file system which reads all standard formats of CD-ROMs.

• Linux performs well with TCP/IP networking, including ftp, telnet, NFS, etc.

• Linux is userfriendly as Netware client and server

• Linux also runs as Lan Manager/Windows Native (SMB) client and server

• It integrates many networking protocols: The base protocols available in the latest development kernels include TCP, IPv4, IPv6, AX.25, X.25, IPX, DDP (Appletalk), Netrom, and others. Stable network protocols included in the stable kernels currently include TCP, IPv4, IPX, DDP, and AX.25.

Answer 2

Linux is an open source, free to use operating system that is copyrighted under GNU General Public License.

MS Windows is propitiatory operating system which you have to purchase which is copyrighted by the company - Microsoft.

Both support a graphical user interface (windows interface) both are easy to use but Linux is faster and costs you nothing.

The related links below take you to where you can get a copy of MS Windows and a copy of a Linux installation for your PC.

Answer 3

There are a considerable number of differences between Windows and Linux. For instance, Windows uses the NTFS file system while Linux implements ext3 or ext4 file systems. Most Windows applications are in terms of executable files while those of Linux are executable bash scripts.

Answer 4

Graphic User Interface

Virtual memory

Multi-tasking

Easy installation

Plug and Play PnP

Add/Remove programs

Networking support

internet ready:Dial up networking and Internet explorer

Answer 5

There's lots of differences. They are two completely different and unrelated things.

Windows 7 is a family of system distributions built around the NT 6.1 operating system, all developed in-house by Microsoft under an extremely proprietary (And expensive.) license. The NT core has a very *very* distance relation to an old operating system known as VMS, whereas the Windows userspace comes from the old DOS-based Windows that lost support with Windows ME and is derived from DOS and its userspace. Windows uses a binary database to store setting and system configuration, which makes fixing a broken windows system a lot more difficult if the system won't run. Windows uses the archaic "drive letter access" method of filesystem and media access. Windows is proprietary and aimed toward the end user. NT uses a "hybrid" kernel, which means it offloads some, but not most, of its critical services to a userspace service and that drivers can either be "hooked" into the kernel or as services themselves.

Linux is an operating system around which entire families of system distribution are built. To be most accurate: Linux itself is a kernel around which an operating system was built which system distributions use. The design of the kernel is such that distributions are very close to Unix, unlike Windows' NT operating system, which is more of its own thing with faint similarities to VMS. The typical Linux distribution will have a userspace with a foundation built on the GNU toolset, but not always (Android doesn't really rely on any GNU tools.). Linux was "inspired" by Minix and built around Unix rules. It, like most Unix systems, uses the "unified filesystem" method of filesystem and media access, which is more streamlined and powerful than drive letter access. Linux is free and open source software and most distributions built on it are free of cost. Linux is a "monolithic" kernel, which means virtually all of its critical services are provided by the kernel in kernelspace and its drivers will have to be "hooked" into the kernel in some way. (There are userspace drivers for Linux, but they require a kernel module (Functionally identical to a real driver.) loaded and available to function.)

Answer 6

Linux is the same as Windows or Macintosh except that it's free, some software doesn't support it, and is (in my opinion) a better alternative. Please be aware that if you are inexperienced with computers you might want help installing it, as the installation modifies some important parts of your system.

Answer 7

Linux is a CLI and Windows is GUI, CMI-command line interface, and GUI- graphical user interface.

We have to aprroach any files or Aplications...bla..bla.. by giving command in linux.

but windows, its cool. you can reach any files or apps just by clicking. linux is a open source whereas winndows is not an open source. open source is just like giving out their code which has been used for building linux operating system. you can modify it you can play with it you can do whatever you want. but in case of windows. its a big mistery. you can't see a single piece of code which has been used to build the OS.