WINDOWS VS LINUX Ali Elreda ENG 352-456 Professor Moylan 3/16/2013 Table of Contents Abstract This article is a comparison between two similar but yet different operating systems Microsoft Windows and Linux. One will have a clear idea about each of these systems and would not find it difficult choosing between them. An operating system is somewhat a software program that connects the users with the hardware of the computer. Without an operating system a computer is useless. There
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for this You are free to (1)study it‚ (2)redistribute it‚ and (3) modify it. 2. Why is Linux popular? Why is it popular in academia? Bell Labs offered it to educational institutions at nominal cost. The schools‚ in turn‚ used it in their computer science programs‚ ensuring that computer science students became familiar with it. Because UNIX was such an advanced development system‚ the students became acclimated to a sophisticated programming environment. As these students graduated
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Partitions and Volumes filesystem quota chroot Jail Use chroot jail: • To enable an application access its own set of To enable an application access its own set of libraries and directory structure • T To restrict access to users on a system ti t t t • To run software such as Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Bastion Hosts Only has access to the one server and service H Black‐hat hacker exploits a bug in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Protocol (SMTP)
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Compare HFS+‚ Ext3fs‚ and NTFS. Choose the most reliable file system and justify your answers. (SLO 15) HFS+ Ext3fs NTFS Introduced in 1998 Introduced in 1999 Introduced in 1993 Apple Linux Microsoft Unlimited characters No limit defined 32‚767 Unicode characters with each path component (directory or filename) commonly up to 255 characters long HFS+ is file system developed by apple to replace their Hierarchical file system as the primary file system used in Mac computers It is also used by
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What is Linux? Which parts of the Linux operating system did each provide? Who else has helped build and refine this operating system? Answer: GNU stands for "GNU’S Not Unix"‚ and it was designed to be a UNIX-like operating system developed by Richard Stallman. Linux is the name of operating system kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. GNU’s tools aside the Linux kernel make the operating system known as “Linux” aka “GNU/Linux”. Thousands of people helped refine the operating system online
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While attending Indiana State University‚ one of the first sculptures I took an interest in was the Via Solaris. “Via Solaris‚” Latin for the way or road of the sun. The sculpture is about 20-feet tall and made of bronze and steel. Via Solaris was created by John Van Alstine (b. 1952)‚ an American sculptor living and working in New York State best known for stone and metal abstract sculptures exhibiting exceptional balance and poise. The sculpture is located on the north side of Stalker Hall on
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and photography. Mobile phones that offer these more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. In this article‚ I would like to talk about the phone that use the Symbian OS and what is the Symbian. Symbian OS is a mobile operating system (OS) targeted at mobile phones that offers a high-level of integration with communication and personal information management (PIM) functionality. It’s used widely. Symbian OS was created by Symbian Foundation. The Foundation was founded by
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CONTENTS 1. Introduction to the institute……………………….…..02 2. Aim/Objectives………………………………………....05 3. The objective of Project……………………………….06 4. Problem definition of existing system…………….….07 5. Advantages of Course management system……….08 6. Methodology……………………………………………. 7. Resource requirement of the project……………….06 8. Time frame………………………………………….….08 9. Team Structure………………………………. Introduction to the Institute * Name of the institute: SLIATE(Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced
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LINUX / Open Source Software - Case Study #3 BUS 326 Integrated Information Systems LINUX Case Study #3 1) How does Linux differ from traditional software? Linux differs from traditional software because the operating system is open on the Internet. It allows programmers to continuously improve code while with proprietary programs; you have to use the programming company it belongs to. Open source software issues are resolved quickly‚ usually within days or weeks; proprietary
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Linux Commands pwd Print Working Directory (shell builtin) Syntax pwd [-LP] Options -P : The pathname printed will not contain symbolic links. -L : The pathname printed may contain symbolic links The default action is to show the current folder as an absolute path. All components of the path will be actual folder names - none will be symbolic links. ls List information about files. Syntax ls [Options]... [File]... Key Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort. -a
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