Linux Research paper

[Tekk]

Well I've decided to write a research paper on Linux and its growing use as an alternative in the server world (as opposed to Windows based machines) and the advantages and disadvantages of it compared to a windows machine. Im just looking for some good articles or books or complete websites that will have some good information about that kind of information. Maybe there is a book or something that someone has read about the differences between the two...compared/contrasted them (windows vs linux that is) and that sort of thing.

My teacher thinks he is god when it comes to computer information ( I dont think he is but what do I know right ). I really dislike him

[Praetorian]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1238672,00.asp
http://www.informit.com/isapi/produc...tent/index.asp
http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/16969/0/page/1

There's a few links. I haven't read any of those, just pulled them from a quick search on Google. Hopefully they help.

[crouse]

just a couple links

http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html

http://uk.itpapers.zdnet.com/search.aspx?&scid=1083

http://www.mindcraft.com/perfreports/web/index.html

hth

[Tekk]

What about actual books...maybe fro ma library or something? I haven't checked my school library but just wondering if someone had an idea. PC World and those types of mag's might be a good idea as well huh.

[bfcx]

linux as an alternative? I'd say windows is the alternative. Linux/BSD dominate by far the number of server on the net, http://news.netcraft.com/archives/we...er_survey.html you can see apache is running more than 2x Microsofts IIS (not to say people cant run apache on windows). Also with Samba 3 coming out benchmarks i've seen show it can handle more connections and serve files faster than windows 2003 server.

Now that that little rant is out of the way i dont know of any books that deal with comparing the 2 OS's and dont see why anyone would publish a book on that subject since things change so quickly. The best thing to look at published documents on the net from garner or other research companies. A topic you might want to cover is the total cost of ownership (TCO) for windows vs. linux servers.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search is a good start.

Try to get past what the articals say and find the original published papers.

[Tekk]

cool...thats definitely an excellent idea