Thursday, November 20, 2008

Open Source Operating Systems

When we say Open source we know that its free no license need no cd keys activation codes etc. Linux is a prominent example of free software or should we say an open source operating system it can be freely modified and redistributed by anyone. Why should we use Open source operating system rather than using license Operating system? Promoting the idea of Linux and open source is just like educating people. Open source Operating system is much better and really reliable system software installation goes with one centralized space. Not like other Operating System such as Windows you can make your installation everywhere which is a total mess!. In open source operating system specifically LINUX/UNIX its centralized, so when you install and uninstall some programs that wont be needed anymore, its easy as one click . The advantage of using Open Source Operating System is that its affordable I mean you can get an Operating System with out paying, that’s what open source can do, memory management most servers all over the world now using Linux as desktop forwards to a very stable system. for example, I always encode my graphics design, and also my videos in Linux using the application Adieux. CPU usage goes 99% / Memory already used SWAP space and my desktop is still usable. I can run Firefox and still surfing the net. I can still watch videos and anything. What a heck! Can you believe it?! I'm going 99% CPUu usage and still doing the things that I want to do. Other operating system can't do this. It isn’t ever!. So if you’re a graphics designer also a coder try using an Open source operating system specifically Linux you wont regret it! I started using Linux last year cause one of my friend keeps telling me to use an Open Source Operating System by the way I love making graphics design, motion graphics, photo editing so I installed the OS I didn’t install it by my self cause installing Linux/Unix Os is not automatic you’ll install it manually yes MANUALLY, believe me open source is the best when it comes to Graphics designing etc. Does Open source operating system support games? Most of the games are not supported in Linux. But the WINE project made everything possible. WINE is another open source project aiming to remake the close source windows ape. Coding the Windows API from the ground is year’s hard work and only the WINE project did that. After 15 years of developing. It was successful! Weeee!. When it comes to Viruses hmmm as of now no virus has made an havoc in Linux/Unix OS but I can say that its possible to make a virus in Linux/Unix OS if one can. . .

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