INTRODUCTION Today ninety-five percent of home computing is under Microsoft Windows based software. This staggering figure gives the impression that Windows is the only stable operating system on the market. The truth is that Windows is not the fastest or the most stable operating system. What other options do users have? The alternative to the costly world of Windows software is called Linux. Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system in the early 1990’s hoping …showed first 75 words of 2695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2695 total…you can connect your computer or laptop to another computer and you can use it. Multi-user capability of windows is limited. You can only transfer files from other computer. Linux has all the features that you can expect from an operating system. (Windows Inside&Out, Slackware Linux Unleashed 3rd Edition) Programmers developed Linux and it is usual that it has compilers and tools for programming languages. GNU C/C++ compilers come with Linux. Dennis Ritchie