LINUX Verses Win NT Linux can extract more performance from your existing hardware. Older machines with less memory and less powerful CPUs can boost performance nicely by changing from Windows to Linux. Raw speed is important in game play, number crunching, image processing, database management, and software compilation. After spending years buying more powerful hardware in order to keep pace with the bloat and speed loss that is inherent to applications coded for the Windows …showed first 75 words of 3308 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3308 total…with a single human being at a time. Linux, like all Unix variants, is designed to handle multiple concurrent users. Windows, of course, can run many programs concurrently, as can Linux. Hard disk partitions: Windows must boot from a primary partition. Linux can boot from either a primary partition or a logical partition inside an extended partition. Windows must boot from the first hard disk. Linux can boot from any hard disk in the computer.