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Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference?

Posted by timothy on from the parallels-maybe-but-come-on dept.

underpar writes "This zdnet article covering Microsoft's Tech Ed conference quotes one of the speakers, Mark Russinovich, as saying that Linux is becoming more and more like Windows. He cites many examples of where Linux 'copies' Windows and other operating systems. He says the only current difference is 'how windowing is handled.'"

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  1. I'll tell tou... by blackmonday · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'll let you know as soon as I finish loading Red Hat on my work computer, Well, that and loading Gentoo on my home PC.

  2. Re:Seems to me... by shatfield · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If there is any copying going on, it certainly didn't start with Linux copying Windows.

    For instance, the Windows Start menu that you mention as if Microsoft created it was ripped off almost entirely from the Apple menu from Mac OS.

    Microsoft won the court battle for the windowing interface of Windows when Apple sued them for implementing a nearly identical GUI interface to Mac OS (The Supreme Court refused the case). After declaring victory, Bill Gates could often be heard saying "Make it more like how Mac OS does it!" in Win95 GUI design meetings.

    Then, as now, the GUI interface of the Macintosh has been head and shoulders above anything else... the Gold Standard to be copied, so to speak.

    --
    "To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic." Cicero
  3. Re:Comparing Kernels or Windows? by Aidtopia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, I do know it's spelled kernel. How embarrassing!

  4. In other news . . . really! by tilrman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Linux 'copies' Windows and other operating systems. He says the only current difference is 'how windowing is handled.'

    MSN 'copies' Google and other search engines. The only current difference is 'how searching is handled.'