The main topic of this article should be expected as 'Linux vs Others' or 'Open Source vs Others'. From beginning this point, I am not going to discuss some well known facts between two facts such as outcome of licence agreement existence, however I will try to focus on more fatal ( deadly points or/and life saving ) points which I see more clearly as I evolve with these stuff more. Amateur and logical question at first is 'Can I do everything that I do on my current installed OS_?'. The answer of the question comes with the newly integrated technologies. In the following years, we will probably never see end system computers which depends on a logical hard drive. Beginning from the involvement of Google's web browsers in industry, it is shown that browsers can actually make underlying systems in an abstract manner. End systems will need to use computing clouds by only authenticating themselves. Actually, Google's main perspective that they had on during the development of google-chrome browser is to catch the improving quality of web in the browsers side. According to the Google Chrome development team, they started Chrome browser project because browsers had not been improved as much as web. So what they did was making innovations on browsers, such as each tab is a separate process or a the fastest just-in-time compiler for a faster javascript execution. These improvements leaded to emerge a new era in cloud systems for end systems. Because today, we can survive with only a browser; most of the time, we don't need a local hard drives in end systems to store any data. Instead of classical computer architecture, It is like each of end system has an individual shell in the cloud, dedicated to them. This 'browser based' new era makes end system 'OS-Independent'. End systems become an interface between user and cloud more than user and hardware. New era is more flexible,secure,fast and cheaper. It is faster because gigabit transfers are more faster ( relatively ) than local disk I/O ( Cloud servers could possibly use proxy caching ), cheaper because cloud servers could possibly use virtualization in order to optimize environment so that one physical hardware can be shared among multiple end users. Open source community makes themselves mature each day by evolving in real problems. When an end developer ( developer meaning an system developer or administrator ) faces a problem, It is get fixed by his fellas. On the other hand, in proprietary world, you are stuck with people who emerged the system. Maybe a daily computer user cannot detect a difference ( daily user is used as who do nothing more than checking e-mail or at most playing computer games ) but as system developers, It is at least similar to Nazi era in World War 2. You have to play your game how much your fuhrer lets you so. Some fellas around thinks that this opinion is a nerdy over-reaction but open source is maybe the only true independent democracy environment that any humanity could not obtain so far. People say what they think, and others choose the optimal idea according to them and use it in the way that they need. And this possibly the only independent environment that anyone can live in without supplying any money. Since end system reflection of free software environments are operating systems, there are pretty much available options which are available beyond one Google search. You simply search it, download it, install it and experience it. Among these options, probably Debian is the most stable Linux distribution. It provides one of the flexible and secure environments and It stands as the hardcore of freedom. On the other hand, we have to accept ( as statistics show ), Debian is not the first option for end users. However, another distribution based on totally Debian takes this role. Nowadays, It is possible to hear from administrators to hear 'Use Ubuntu' instead of 'Use Linux'. Since it is free, flexible to the cloud implementation and supported by thousands of developers around the world, It become one of the leading example in this environment. |