对于一台电脑来说，如果说出色的硬件是它的“身体”的话，那么系统就是它的"灵魂"，安装了操作系统用户才能使用电脑来进行各种各样的操作。 就目前来讲，Windows依然是PC机里面使用最多的系统，当然除了Windows之外，还有一些其它非常优秀的操作系统。

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

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One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.