by wichita lineman 25

Created on: January 18, 2008

The benefits of the Linux Operating System are great and many when you actually look at all aspects of it and functionality. Linux is the operating system that is making more and more headway into the mainstream home computing world, and is becoming more and more widely deployed in corporate server environments all of the time largely due to its enhanced networking and multitasking abilities, as well as its inherently vastly improved integrated security measures with different users and networks through active connections.

First of all, when it comes right down to it, Linux itself has its roots deeply embedded in UNIX, and is, for all intents and purposes, POSIX compliant UNIX, it also uses all of the same tools and programs that a typical UNIX box would use in just about any environment. Just about any developer of Linux, or anyone that deals with Linux on a regular basis, whether it be the home user, or the IT professional running power user based tasks and applications, will almost all tell you that the benefits of using Linux are numerous and well worth the time in many different aspects of computing.

Linux stands above just about all other operating systems in that it handles such things as memory usage, virtual memory usage, CPU priority for program executions, and data storage on the file system that it employs to a considerably higher degree of efficiency and without nearly as much fail as most others.

The multitasking advantages of the Linux operating system are wide and many indeed. The option is given to the user to have as many separate desktops as they desire which is really a handy thing for Linux users like me to have, considering that I only have one monitor and it is a CRT, I can open Firefox on one desktop, and while it is signing into my yahoo email, I can load a photo editing program on the other desktop, and then load another program on another desktop, and so on and so on. This is a major advantage which Linux possesses over other operating systems like windows, with the possible exception of Mac OS X, where the user would have to have more than one monitor physically connected to their machine in order to perform the same functions while at the same time not cluttering up their desktop with application windows.

When you discuss security advantages in Linux, you cant help but point out and acknowledge that viruses really cannot do the same amount of damage in a Linux system as they can in a Windows system. The main reason why this is true

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