- Compared the Differences Between Two Operating System:-
Installation
* Turn off the computer, and then place the XP program in the CD drive. Turn the computer back on and the operating system will begin the installation process.
* Follow the prompts.
* When arriving at the "Welcome to Setup" screen, Press ENTER to begin the installation process.
* Read the License Agreement, and press F8 indicating you agree to its terms.
* On the next screen, you are presented with a summary of the available partitions on your installed hard drives Select your partition and press ENTER. Select either "Format the Partition using the NTFS File System" OR "Format the Partition using the FAT File System," * Now the setup program will display various marketing information to you as it installs and configures itself to your system .
* Select your time zone, and ensure that the date/time are correct. Click "Next" to continue .setup will continue to install other devices and peripherals connected to your machine
* Insert boot disk to your CD drive then Switch on your computer.
* The first request made by the system is a decision about the language selected for the installation program.
* Press ENTER to start the installation program.
* Once the installation source has been defined, provided that there are no problems, it is the time to specify whether you want to update an old version or make a brand new installation.
* The installation program will present a box for you to choose your partition (You should create at least two partitions for Linux, Linux native and Linux swap. Linux native partition is used to hold the Linux kernel, utilities and etc. Linux swap partition is used to support virtual memory).
* The installation program will detect your network card automatically select the components you wish to install. If you want to install everything, your partition should have over 700 MB free space.
* Final configuration (Mouse, Network configuration , Clock and local time, Services, Printing)
Formation
The same as the installation but we choose ''Quitting the setup without installing Windows XP''.
You can upgrade from version of Redhat to another version without formatting ( just click the Upgrade bottom) but when you want to install a new operating system like Windows you have to format your computer to install it .
Updating
Choose "Control Panel," and in the next screen that comes up, you will double click "Automatic Updates''. Then you will have total control of setting up your computer for critical updates. Click "Apply" at the bottom of the panel and then "OK."
Check the ''Redhat Updates and Errata'' frequently, or sign up for the'' Redhat Network'' using rhn_register (There's usually an icon placed on your desktop), and use up2date to automatically update your system.
Requirement for Installing
CPU : 300 MHz
CPU : Pentium IV processor, 2.4GHz, 512K cache or equivalent.
HDD : 128 MB
HDD : 1.2 GB
RAM : 2.0GB
RAM : 128 MB
Cost
From 199$ To 299$
$1,058.00
Performance
Performance only gets better with additional resources, particularly when you run memory-intensive multimedia applications. Many users will want to expand their computer's memory to take advantage of multimedia applications and to achieve even better performance.
In general, adding memory is the easiest and most effective way to improve a computer's performance. For many workloads that involve Web browsing, e-mail, and other activities, 128MB of RAM will provide you with a user experience equivalent or superior to that of Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) running on the same hardware. If you're satisfied with using Windows Me on lower-end computers, you should find Windows XP a satisfactory upgrade.
Languages: Focused on international standards, such as OpenI18N and GB18030, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has documentation and software available in 15 languages: English, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Devnagari, Bangla, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati.
Auditing: In an update planned for mid-2005, a new auditing facility will be available that provides an open, bidirectional socket interface that can be used by auditing applications. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for SE Linux and standard Linux events.
* More secure applications.
* Protection against commonly exploited security flaws like e.g. buffer overflows integrated in the standard software stack
* Highest-grade protection via the SE Linux security feature. Protects system services from attacks, full transparency and is easy to extend and adopt.
* Smartcard authentication support.
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC ([R])), a provider of performance measurement services, tools and research to the securities industry, reported the record-breaking performance results. The test used Reuters standard test procedures.
Security
Windows XP offers some useful security benefits, such as Windows Update, which can be set to install security patches automatically, and a built-in firewall. If a user doesn't install the updates for a long time after the Windows Update icon is displayed in the toolbar, Windows will automatically install them and restart the computer on its own. This can lead to the loss of unsaved data if the user is away from the computer when the updates are installed. Service Pack 2 enables the firewall by default. It also adds increased memory protection to let the operating system take advantage of new No execute technology built into CPUs such as the AMD64. This allows Windows XP to prevent some buffer overflow exploits.
Mandatory Access Control: Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux) provides a MAC infrastructure that complements the existing Discretionary Access Control security features provided by the standard Linux environment. In a MAC-based environment, application capabilities and privileges are set by predefined policies and enforced by the kernel. This prevents errant applications from compromising system security.
Memory management enhancements: Several features, including Exec Shield and Position Independent Executables, combine to prevent applications from being exploited by attacks such as buffer overflows.
Compile and runtime consistency checking: New buffer validation techniques in the GCC compiler and Glibc library greatly reduce the risk of faulty applications being compromised.
Speed
* Deals with setting the amount of time Windows will take to kill open applications on shutdown.
* Changes the same settings, this time for all users on the system.
* Alter a second registry setting to decrease the amount of time Windows XP will wait before shutting down active services after receiving a shut down command.
This should help to considerably speed up Windows XP.
Up to 600,000 updates per second. In addition, standard deviation of latency--a measure of jitter--was also the lowest we've seen with RMDS: less than 0.5 milliseconds at rates up to 600,000 updates per second. Finally, a single server with a stacked RMDS topology was able to output a very high 5.8 million updates per second in the most
- Compatible Program and Application:-
Web Browsers
* Netscape Navigator.
* Microsoft Internet Explorer.
* Mozilla Firefox : web browser
* ICQ: With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs
* MIRC: is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client.
Office Productivity
* Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint®, Microsoft FrontPage®, Microsoft Outlook®, and Microsoft Project.
* Lotus Notes.
* Quicken (Intuit).
* OpenOffice.org v2.1.0 : It is similar to Microsoft Office but it is open source code, and smaller than MS office, also it's free (Writer, HTML, Calc Draw Impress - Equation Editor).
* Star office 6.0: similar to MS Office.
Multimedia
* Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.
* Corel Photo paint.
* Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge.
* Macromedia's Dreamweaver.
* Yine media player: It's the competitor for Windows Media Player.
* Gimp: It's a program for photos processing.
* Jet Audio 7.1.1 Basic.
* Video Clip
These are example of some compatible program and application in each OS…
- After your search finish what is your prefer…Why?
Of course without doubt Windows XP the reasons are:
1) Despite of the large propaganda of the Windows OS, but because of its ease of usage and there are verity of applications that satisfy Saudi customers so it is the best for us.
2) We think that Red hat OS is more convenient for mainframes and servers than Individual people.
3) Red hat is an OS that had an Open Source code so it is developed very quickly, but you can't find your Technical support so if you had any problem in red hat it is hard to solve it. In Windows it's very easy to contact with the Technician Supporters by the Internet.
- What you learn from Assignment, or any recommendations?
We get Knowledge about The Operating Systems and what is the best and what is not , we understood what is the requirements that we need before we Install a new OS.
- What are the difficult in Assignment?
Lack of reliable sources of information for example we took some Information from website and we found some websites that’s post information against what we found in another website,
Os is so broad Subject and our Knowledge is limited in what we used to use.
- References that we used in our report:-
Linux Distributions - Facts and Figures
redhat.com RHEL
Red_Hat_Global_Desktop_Linux:_The_Best_Kept_Secret?
http://www.klamaraby.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22053
5. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457057.aspx
6. http://soft.bdr130.net/ScreenShots-1840-eti-camcorder-pro.html
7. http://www.google.com.sa/search?hl=ar&defl=en&q=define:MIRC&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Date of Deliver
21/11/1429 H
Installation
* Turn off the computer, and then place the XP program in the CD drive. Turn the computer back on and the operating system will begin the installation process.
* Follow the prompts.
* When arriving at the "Welcome to Setup" screen, Press ENTER to begin the installation process.
* Read the License Agreement, and press F8 indicating you agree to its terms.
* On the next screen, you are presented with a summary of the available partitions on your installed hard drives Select your partition and press ENTER. Select either "Format the Partition using the NTFS File System" OR "Format the Partition using the FAT File System," * Now the setup program will display various marketing information to you as it installs and configures itself to your system .
* Select your time zone, and ensure that the date/time are correct. Click "Next" to continue .setup will continue to install other devices and peripherals connected to your machine
* Insert boot disk to your CD drive then Switch on your computer.
* The first request made by the system is a decision about the language selected for the installation program.
* Press ENTER to start the installation program.
* Once the installation source has been defined, provided that there are no problems, it is the time to specify whether you want to update an old version or make a brand new installation.
* The installation program will present a box for you to choose your partition (You should create at least two partitions for Linux, Linux native and Linux swap. Linux native partition is used to hold the Linux kernel, utilities and etc. Linux swap partition is used to support virtual memory).
* The installation program will detect your network card automatically select the components you wish to install. If you want to install everything, your partition should have over 700 MB free space.
* Final configuration (Mouse, Network configuration , Clock and local time, Services, Printing)
Formation
The same as the installation but we choose ''Quitting the setup without installing Windows XP''.
You can upgrade from version of Redhat to another version without formatting ( just click the Upgrade bottom) but when you want to install a new operating system like Windows you have to format your computer to install it .
Updating
Choose "Control Panel," and in the next screen that comes up, you will double click "Automatic Updates''. Then you will have total control of setting up your computer for critical updates. Click "Apply" at the bottom of the panel and then "OK."
Check the ''Redhat Updates and Errata'' frequently, or sign up for the'' Redhat Network'' using rhn_register (There's usually an icon placed on your desktop), and use up2date to automatically update your system.
Requirement for Installing
CPU : 300 MHz
CPU : Pentium IV processor, 2.4GHz, 512K cache or equivalent.
HDD : 128 MB
HDD : 1.2 GB
RAM : 2.0GB
RAM : 128 MB
Cost
From 199$ To 299$
$1,058.00
Performance
Performance only gets better with additional resources, particularly when you run memory-intensive multimedia applications. Many users will want to expand their computer's memory to take advantage of multimedia applications and to achieve even better performance.
In general, adding memory is the easiest and most effective way to improve a computer's performance. For many workloads that involve Web browsing, e-mail, and other activities, 128MB of RAM will provide you with a user experience equivalent or superior to that of Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) running on the same hardware. If you're satisfied with using Windows Me on lower-end computers, you should find Windows XP a satisfactory upgrade.
Languages: Focused on international standards, such as OpenI18N and GB18030, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has documentation and software available in 15 languages: English, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Devnagari, Bangla, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati.
Auditing: In an update planned for mid-2005, a new auditing facility will be available that provides an open, bidirectional socket interface that can be used by auditing applications. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for SE Linux and standard Linux events.
* More secure applications.
* Protection against commonly exploited security flaws like e.g. buffer overflows integrated in the standard software stack
* Highest-grade protection via the SE Linux security feature. Protects system services from attacks, full transparency and is easy to extend and adopt.
* Smartcard authentication support.
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC ([R])), a provider of performance measurement services, tools and research to the securities industry, reported the record-breaking performance results. The test used Reuters standard test procedures.
Security
Windows XP offers some useful security benefits, such as Windows Update, which can be set to install security patches automatically, and a built-in firewall. If a user doesn't install the updates for a long time after the Windows Update icon is displayed in the toolbar, Windows will automatically install them and restart the computer on its own. This can lead to the loss of unsaved data if the user is away from the computer when the updates are installed. Service Pack 2 enables the firewall by default. It also adds increased memory protection to let the operating system take advantage of new No execute technology built into CPUs such as the AMD64. This allows Windows XP to prevent some buffer overflow exploits.
Mandatory Access Control: Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux) provides a MAC infrastructure that complements the existing Discretionary Access Control security features provided by the standard Linux environment. In a MAC-based environment, application capabilities and privileges are set by predefined policies and enforced by the kernel. This prevents errant applications from compromising system security.
Memory management enhancements: Several features, including Exec Shield and Position Independent Executables, combine to prevent applications from being exploited by attacks such as buffer overflows.
Compile and runtime consistency checking: New buffer validation techniques in the GCC compiler and Glibc library greatly reduce the risk of faulty applications being compromised.
Speed
* Deals with setting the amount of time Windows will take to kill open applications on shutdown.
* Changes the same settings, this time for all users on the system.
* Alter a second registry setting to decrease the amount of time Windows XP will wait before shutting down active services after receiving a shut down command.
This should help to considerably speed up Windows XP.
Up to 600,000 updates per second. In addition, standard deviation of latency--a measure of jitter--was also the lowest we've seen with RMDS: less than 0.5 milliseconds at rates up to 600,000 updates per second. Finally, a single server with a stacked RMDS topology was able to output a very high 5.8 million updates per second in the most
- Compatible Program and Application:-
Web Browsers
* Netscape Navigator.
* Microsoft Internet Explorer.
* Mozilla Firefox : web browser
* ICQ: With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs
* MIRC: is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client.
Office Productivity
* Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint®, Microsoft FrontPage®, Microsoft Outlook®, and Microsoft Project.
* Lotus Notes.
* Quicken (Intuit).
* OpenOffice.org v2.1.0 : It is similar to Microsoft Office but it is open source code, and smaller than MS office, also it's free (Writer, HTML, Calc Draw Impress - Equation Editor).
* Star office 6.0: similar to MS Office.
Multimedia
* Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.
* Corel Photo paint.
* Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge.
* Macromedia's Dreamweaver.
* Yine media player: It's the competitor for Windows Media Player.
* Gimp: It's a program for photos processing.
* Jet Audio 7.1.1 Basic.
* Video Clip
These are example of some compatible program and application in each OS…
- After your search finish what is your prefer…Why?
Of course without doubt Windows XP the reasons are:
1) Despite of the large propaganda of the Windows OS, but because of its ease of usage and there are verity of applications that satisfy Saudi customers so it is the best for us.
2) We think that Red hat OS is more convenient for mainframes and servers than Individual people.
3) Red hat is an OS that had an Open Source code so it is developed very quickly, but you can't find your Technical support so if you had any problem in red hat it is hard to solve it. In Windows it's very easy to contact with the Technician Supporters by the Internet.
- What you learn from Assignment, or any recommendations?
We get Knowledge about The Operating Systems and what is the best and what is not , we understood what is the requirements that we need before we Install a new OS.
- What are the difficult in Assignment?
Lack of reliable sources of information for example we took some Information from website and we found some websites that’s post information against what we found in another website,
Os is so broad Subject and our Knowledge is limited in what we used to use.
- References that we used in our report:-
Linux Distributions - Facts and Figures
redhat.com RHEL
Red_Hat_Global_Desktop_Linux:_The_Best_Kept_Secret?
http://www.klamaraby.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22053
5. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457057.aspx
6. http://soft.bdr130.net/ScreenShots-1840-eti-camcorder-pro.html
7. http://www.google.com.sa/search?hl=ar&defl=en&q=define:MIRC&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Date of Deliver
21/11/1429 H
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