HIGH performance, HIGH SPEED, FASTEST OS running a database server!!

If you are looking for high performance, high speed, the FASTEST operating system in the world running a database server, than your wait is over!! Linux is super-fast running "superb OS" most suitable to run a database server on it! Borland Corp had recently released Interbase SQL server on Linux!! check that out. ******************************************************************************** Salient Features of Linux Operating System ------------------------------------------- ' Linux is the FASTEST operating system in the world! Linux runs MUCH FASTER than Windows95/NT. Linux is 1.2 to 3 times faster than Windows NT or 95. In command-line console mode without X-windows it runs even faster (console mode is most ideal for servers like database servers, webservers, emailservers..etc.) ' Linux is the most RELIABLE OS. Windows95, Windows NT fail the CRASH_OS_TEST programs and only Linux passes. Also commercial unixe's like IRIX, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO all FAIL the crash test and only Linux passes the crashme test. (See crashme*.rpm on cdrom). Very often Windows95 users will get GPF errors and the system freezes. Linux is very robust because it is built by millions of people on internet and there are no errors in the kernel. Linux runs for one full year without any re-boots or any problems non-stop! ' Linux has excellent SCALABILITY - it runs on Uni-processor, Multi-processors, Parallel Processors and even Super-computers (with hundreds of CPUs). Linux fully supports SMP(Symmetric Multi-Processing) boxes with more than one cpu. Windows 95 supports only one cpu box. Linux scales much BETTER than NT on SMP (Symmetric Multi Processors) boxes. ' Linux is fully 32-bit/64-bit operating system. And Linux is very modular and is easily ported to 64-bit chips like DEC alpha, UltraSparc. Windows95 has vast majority of 16-bit code in its kernel (about 70% of kernel is 16-bit code and the remaining is 32-bit). ' Linux is a very SECURE OS. Windows95 is NOT a secure OS, break-ins are easy. Windows 95, NT, MSDOS have computer VIRUSES. But Linux does not have any viruses. The reason being the way Linux OS is designed. ' Linux is less demanding on system resources. Linux runs on 386 PC with as little as 2 MB in console mode without X-windows. Windows 95 and NT CANNOT because the graphic engine in built inside the kernel which makes Windows95/NT a resource hog. Graphic engine built inside the OS kernel makes Windows95/NT extremely unreliable. Linux can do everything that Windows 95/NT does BUT Windows 95/NT cannot do everything which Linux does!! ' Linux uses X-windows which is a advanced network-windowing system, whereas Win dows NT/95 is a standalone single-workstation windowing system. For example, usi ng X-windows, users can display output on any monitor/workstation attached any where in the network. There is a command called 'xhost' in Linux (see man xhost ) and DISPLAY environment variable. Like this there are lot of functionalities i n X-windows which are missing in Windows NT/95. X-Windows is a industry standard which was developed in MIT and is a very powerful network windowing system. X i s covered by ISO in X-Open standard along with POSIX. ' Linux supports remote system administration whereas Windows NT/95 does not. For example, you can remote login and do many system administration tasks, for example like 'reboot a Linux server' from a remote terminal hundreds of miles away! ' Linux OS needs only 100 MB of disk space for installation. Linux supports dual boot on the PCs - that is, you can have Windows95/NT on one partition and Linux on other. During system startup user can select to load Linux or Windows 95 and vice versa. ' Linux is 100% POSIX compliant OS, whereas Windows NT/95 are not. POSIX is IEEE (Institute of Electrical Engg) standard as well as ANSI and international ISO s tandard spec. U.S. govt, generally require full compliance of POSIX on any oper ating system. Most of the Unix's like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO are 100% POSIX com pliant. ' You get the complete source code for Linux OS and all of it's applications, wh ereas Windows 95/NT is proprietary from a mono-polistic vendor and you get only the binaries. Having the source code of Linux is vital for companies because they can quickly add advanced features and share it with every other companies in the world. ' Linux is free of any cost. Downside of Windows 95 and NT is that you need to p ay $200 (US dollars) per seat for Windows 95 and $800 (US dollars) per seat for Windows NT. And Microsoft applications like MS Office, C++ compilers and others will cost you further thousands of US dollars! It is better to spend money on hardware and use Linux as the software. ' Linux has more 1500 software packages included on the CDROM and more are being developed world-wide. ' Linux was awarded 'The BEST Network Operating system, 1997/98' by US InfoWorld computer magazine ' The movie 'TITANIC' was created using Linux on Digital Alpha! Linux was used to create computer graphics, animations of all the shots in the movie 'TITANIC' which made $1000 MILLION U.S. dollars in box office! ' Linux was also used for storing data from experiments in the space shuttle. Linux was orbiting the earth in space! ******************************************************************************** MICROSOFT - LINUX ANALOGY LIST ------------------------------ LINUX (UNIX) is a International Standard (ISO) POSIX compliant operating system Linux applications are at : http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html (You MUST visit t his site first before searching anywhere!!) Linux C.O.L.A is at : http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html (archive of newsgroup comp.os.linux.announce) Singapore site http://www.netspire.com.sg/Linux/LinApps/linapps.html L inux newsgroups are at comp.os.linux.* Note: Some of the packages listed below are commercial and others are on the Lin ux cdrom. -------------------------------------------- Microsoft Windows for linux : Linux has WABI, WINE, VNC packages which runs most MS Windows 3.1, Win32 programs inside linux window.With Linux, using VNC package you can run win32 programs remotely on Window95/NT box programs and display on your local linux box inside Linux. Details see http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ -------------------------------------------- MSDOS for linux : Linux has Dr. DOS from http://www.caldera.com which runs most DOS programs inside a linux window. See also DosEmu (DOS-Emulator) package, XDosEmu and also get FreeDOS (MSDOS clone ) from http://www.freedos.org/ -------------------------------------------- Microsoft SQLserver (RDBMS Database) : Linux has these databases - PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org (This is on Linux cdrom) MySQL RDBMS - http://www.tcx.se (from Sweden) Oracle RDBMS - see http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html Informix