Linux Operating Systems

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The most popular UNIX-system design end of the XX century has become an inexpensive alternative to expensive (HP-UNIX, SUN Solaris, Digital UNIX) solutions - Operating System (OS etc.) Linux. Today the pace of market development of this system compared to other well-known operating systems is the most intense (Stutz 2004).

The strength of the Linux operating system is its flexibility: The system covers the entire range of applications - from desktop PC to multiprocessor servers and super clusters. Currently, multi-stable Linux operating system running on the platforms PC, Alpha, PowerPC, Macintosh, SGI MIPS, Strong ARM, SGI Visual Workstations, VAX, 8086, PC-98, Palm Pilot, HP PA-RISC, Sparc & UltraSparc64 systems, m68k (Kofler 2007).

As an operating system, Linux performs many of the features characteristic of the DOS and Windows. However, it should be noted that the OS is of particular strength and flexibility. Most operating systems, personal computers, such as DOS, created for small PCs with limited capabilities and only recently developed into a universal machine. These operating systems are constantly being upgraded, because they must meet continually evolving capacity of computer hardware (Gagne 2004). The system is Linux was designed in a very different context. It is a PC version of the operating system UNIX, which is used for decades on mainframes and minicomputers and is the primary operating system desktops. Linux makes available to your PC's speed, efficiency and flexibility of UNIX, using all advantages of modern personal computers.

From a financial point of view, Linux has a very significant advantage - it is not commercial. In contrast to the operating system UNIX, Linux is free to the general public GNU license...

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...ct, and Sybase are already offering turnkey solutions for Linux.

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