Zusammenfassung der Ressource
OperatingSystems
- Linux
- Linux status as the most
prominent free software and
Open Source Operation
System on the last 10 years
- Was developed by Linus
Torvalds at the University
of Helsinki in 1991
- Root in Linux
- In Linux, the administrator is
called “root”, and you should use
root access only when you
absolutely need it
- such as when you try to
install programs or
modify system settings.
- Help is available
- One of the best parts
about switching to
Linux is that there are
plenty of people who
have done it before
- Command-line interface
- The command line can be
used to recover the system if
the graphics subsystem fails
- Partitioning
- All Linux distributions
have bundled partitioning
software such as fdisk or
gparted
- File Systems
- Linux, Supported: ext2, ext3, ext4,
ReiserFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS,
NTFS, JFS, XFS, Minux and
GmailFS.
- Memory
Management
Disk
- This reduces slowdown
due to disk
fragmentation from
general used
- Emulation and virtualization
- VMware, VirtualBox, Xen, Parallels, Win4Lin. KVM
and QEMU can be used to run other operating
systems within Linux
- Open vs. Closed
- Anyone with programming experience is free to
fix bugs and submit them for inclusion in future
releases and updates.
- Windows
- Windows has retained an
extremely large retail seles
personal desktop computers
- Don’t login as Admin
- It’s common practice for
Windows users to login as
the system administrator all
the time.
- This is one of the major reasons
why Windows computers are so
easily infected with viruses and
malware
- Full vs. partial
hardware support
- Windows, you know that
most every piece of hardware
will work with the operating
system
- Command-line interface
- The Command Prompt exists to
provide direct communication
between the user and the
operating system
- Partitioning
- Windows, expanding NTFS partitions is possible
without problems, and on Vista it is possible to
shrink partitions as well.
- File Systems
- Windows supported:
NTFS, FAT, ISO 9660,
UDF, and others
- Memory
Management
Disk
- Windows NT family (including 2000, XP,
Vista, Win7) most commonly employs a
dynamically allocated pagefile for memory
management
- Emulation and virtualization
- VMware, VirtualBox, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V (only
available on 64-bit versions of Vista SP2, Windows 7, and
Windows Server 2008), Parallels, QEMU can be used to run
other operating systems within Windows.
- Open vs. Closed
- In Windows, Claims its platform is more secure
because of a comprehensive approach to security
using the Security Development Lifecycle
- Linux and Microsoft Windows differ in
philosophy, cost, versatility and stability, with
each seeking to improve in their perceived
weaker areas. Comparisons of the two operating
systems tend to reflect their origins, historic user
bases and distribution models
- The essence of this study is to
demonstrate a setof proposed
metrics for quantifying the security
risksinvolved in different operating
systems, andcomparing the risks
between operating systems.
- Table1
- descriptive statistics
and several issues
withrespect to our
data
- Windows is
dominant in the
server segment
- Table 2
- presents the changes in the use of
operating systemsand the number of
computers in each segment over time
- Table 3
- Panel B shows that more firms
switched from Windowsto Linux
than from other operating systems
to Linux
- Panel C of Table 3 reports
the fractions of firms that
updated theiroperating
systems
- Panel A which reports that
about 32.3% of firms have
adoptedserver computers
for the first time
- Panel D of Table 3
presents the proportion
of firms that mighthave
tested an operating
system in the server
segment