Computer System

When talking about a computer system, most people will immediately say Windows! But what most people don’t know is that there’s more than one computer system, and Windows might not be the safest, or the best system available.

Linux or Windows computer system

In terms of dominating the market, Windows is by far the computer system with most users. In the personal computer market, 90 % of the people use Windows and in 2007 Windows was accounted for 66 % of all the servers sold.

As of June here in 2009, Linux powered around 88 % of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, where as only 1 % used the Windows computer system.

In December 2008 Linux powered 50% of the most reliable internet hosting companies, again only 10% used the Windows computer system.

Difference in a computer system

The Windows and the Linux computer system differ in cost, ease of use, versatility and how stable they are. Both these computer system giants constantly try to improve their weak areas to control the computer system market. Typically, some of the bigger areas that people find a weakness for the Linux computer system is the poor usability of Linux for the mass market. While the Windows computer system biggest setback is the vulnerability to viruses and malware.

Both of these areas are in development all the time and both of the computer systems mentioned are reliable.

Linux is customizable in a way that Windows is not. For one, the user interface, while similar in concept, varies in detail from distribution to distribution.

For example, the task bar may default to being on the top or the bottom. Also, there are many special purpose versions of Linux above and beyond the full blown distributions described above.

For example, NASLite is a version of Linux that runs off a single floppy disk (since revised to also boot from a CD) and converts an old computer into a file server. This ultra small edition of Linux is capable of networking, file sharing and being a web server.