Ceci n'est pas une pipe

I am writing for some months to the mailing list of LCZ (Linux Club Zogno) whose message exchanges are for the moment but a few quality, especially when taking into account the average age of children who belong to it. Therefore more than happy to carry the post that is on the page "About Us" in their official website ( http://linuxzogno.ilbello.com ).

Why switch to Linux? (Adapted from Gallo1980 )

First, let us flee from every religious war: It is normal for people using the computer to use text editor, surf the Internet, download mail and little else is practically no difference which OS to use, it's Win or Linux.

Although it would be to make a long speech on security programs such as IE or Outlook. To have an immediate confirmation, if you use IE , click here ... a real casino? Well you do not think I did was to load a JavaScript popup window with a line, exploiting a bug in the library MSHTML.DLL, you can overwrite the registers ECX, EDX, EDI (congratulations Bill!). So think what you could do a more experienced programmer if he could inject Assembly code using this exploit as it does for a buffer overflow. So maybe you start thinking that there are alternative browsers such as Mozilla .

Back to us, things change when you start to do a more intensive and "serious" in their PC. Just think that Linux is born and continues to grow with the needs of our users in full Open Source philosophy to implement their programs on the net profits dropping not only free but also accompanied by their own source code! In this way anyone can change and better than the same program using the principles of the GNU license (see details)

If you want, more concretely, by installing Linux OS will have a much more stable than any version of Windows you have ever tried! Remember for example the classic phrase "I have installed too much stuff ... my computer does not take it anymore, I guess I should format the hard disk"? With Linux you can also forget it there.

Another important feature of Linux, as well as security (the number of viruses for Linux is somewhat limited and avoidable with a little 'common sense and security bugs are constantly "plugged"), is in fact the stability.

In fact, thanks to its architecture in layers (layers), problems with conflicts or throughput in the system startup are highly improbable. When you freeze something also seen the system in stand-alone modules, it just hangs in that program, and the rest is "standing". This derives from the structure of the Linux kernel .

Not only that, you need some specific program? No problem, 90% of the time you'll find it for free directly on the internet without worrying about finding crack or other illegal stuff, but what matters most and that if your distribution supports the RPM package manager or apt, simply set the correct a file with a list of servers with a command line shell with root permissions, will be the same system to find the program you requested, working to resolve any dependencies and install it.

There is a newer version of the program that you have already installed? Will the same system that will alert you by offering the upgrade.

If instead you like to analyze things at a lower level ... well you remember that even the sources!

I am still of the opinion that the experience is worth a thousand words, so the advice is to try and evaluate yourself.

Source: http://linuxzogno.ilbello.com/?page_id=5