Could I get the differences between Windows NT and linux with specific focus on the advantages of NT over linux if any

Linux advantages: more stable, no maintanance, excelent virus resistance, extremley stable... damn its a damn solaris. for free. Linux dissadvantages, a bit harder to configure, dosn't support some of the hardware, or so i heard. NT advantages: EASY to install, a little bit easier to configure than linux. NT dissadvantages: crashes all the time, a little bit less flexible than linux...so on. -Freeman

I have been using NT since its second appearance as NT 3.5 (I refused to buy it when it was born as NT 3.1). I have found NT to be *very* stable. About the only thing that will crash it is a hardware failure. These things will bring about the infamous blue screen of death. In its early days, every bit of information you learned about NT was acquired by persistent effort by the user. As an amateur developer, I was used to such tribulations. NT requires the user to configure the hardware manually. This requires the user to learn his hardware, but you ought to learn something about it anyway. PCs are not refrigerators -- they require the user to have some knowledge. The upside to this manual configuration is that once configured, it is not likely to change. Win9x is unstable because it could re-assign hardware communication parameters each time new hardware is detected and change the look-up table values. Sometimes Win95 changes table values without the appearance of new hardware. And misbehaving software does not bring down NT, it just brings down itself. The exception to this is ignorance with communication software services. Sometimes dial-up connections are left open and un-usable when the Communication App crashes. The user has to learn which service applet has not been stopped and do it manually. Otherwise, he is forced to shut down his machine so that the PC's hardware can reset. Linux is in the same situation NT was in its infancy. You will have to learn it. The stark difference between the two are the number and nature of the available applications. NT had the ability to run almost all Windows Apps and most MS-DOS apps. Linux has a wealth of apps, too, but they are from the Unix world. Some of us learned about that world and some didn't. If you are comfortable with the command line and running applications from it, then Linux will look good to you. And the Windows GUI equivalent is X-windows, which is actually much better. You always have four desktops. A few HTML applications are already available which work well. And Corel has put together a nice office suite built around WordPerfect, which makes the system very friendly. Another great office suite is StarOffice. I'd say that Linux really has no disadvantages except that it requires the user to think positively about what he/she can actually do after all. If you work working with a desktop computer, then installation will be easy enough, no worse (I think) than NT, although you will have to give the subject of partitions some thought. I recommend that you acquire a boot manager, such as System Commander (which has been around for a long time) and install Linux on a machine that already has an OS which you like. Both NT and Linux have their own boot managers, but I prefer one I can configure and control with little effort. May you have many good discoveries and solutions.

nt always crashes with reason and expensive. behaves like a woman during period. a hunting ground for virusses. dun really do multitasking,system confuse. linux stable virus resistent is strong cheap or free no maintainance not much hardware compatibility yet

Linux makes you sound clever. But what can you do other than play with linux itself? You can run second rate applications written by hACKer DOodz.