Windows vs Linux: Architecture, part I
Linux is not a free version of Windows. The two systems differ not only visually, in the graphical user interface the user sees, but also functionally, as is frequently discussed, and legally to boot, which is constantly emphasized by the Free software community. The differences between them are so fundamental that drawing a comparison between them is nearly impossible. There are so many moot points that they could make up a very long list.
This part of my article concerns the architectures of Windows systems. The systems themselves are baffling ones, to put it mildly, but to know them is more than a necessity. (And a forced necessity sometimes…) When I say Windows, I mean the whole family of operating systems - NT/2k/XP/Vista - but mainly XP Professional. Many a time I’ve read anti-Microsoft rants, where the authors complained about lack of command line functionality (poor in Windows and very advanced in Linux), or installation processes, which create some problems and erratic application upgrades (just at the point the comparisons to Linux programs like apt-get, emerge and rpm show up). A lot of grumbles pertaining to wrongly set-up default user and root accounts could be found there. And so on.
These inconveniences are grievous ones in my opinion, more, they should be branded as top-level ones.
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