Linux Ubuntu-An amateur Introduction

Let me put it this way.....A young guy was fed with ordinary cornflakes his entire lyf telling him wat he ate  was the best available.But one day he came across some flavoured ones and decided to try it out.The second he tried out the new flavours,the taste of the flavours he never experienced in his entire lyf gave him a kind of ecstacy.....yes, the same kind of ecstacy which i am experiencing now while using the ubuntu version of linux.
                          During my intial days of relationship with computer,i have never come across any other operating system other than windows.In fact i did not even know wat an operating system was.I got used to windows very fast.it started with windows98 where i learned the basics of the system.Later it was windows XP.Did not even dare to use vista after all kinds of negative reviews circling around me.But i really wanted to try out Vista because it attracted with me  new kind of style & accent.But i thought i would stick on with XP.
                      It was this period when i was introduced to Linux.Linux was beautiful,perfect fit. OK.....let me get it straight......Microsoft windows is a very ugly girl who is dressed up in a gorgeous fitting while linux is a beautiful girl who is simple in dressing and fashion.
                Plus points of windows were negligibly small when compared with that of linux.The style that attracted me to vista,the workability of XP and the capability of Windows 7 were all in linux there at the same time.
                   While comparing windows and linux each other lots of peoples have one thing in mind that linux is more secure against viruses.This could be the one from many reasons that linux is widely being used on servers but if we think about why linux is secure against viruses than windows,we will have lots of reasons in mind.WEll a few could be

1) User Privileges.

In linux no user is given administrative Privileges rather than root therefore linux doesn’t allow a normal user to write any system file.Only root user can install software and can edit system file so if you need to install any software or need to edit any configuration file you will have use su – command.

2) No Executables.

Like windows linux doesn’t support .exe files. Most of the viruses in windows are being spread with .exe files what happens you just double click on .exe file and virus,trojan or malware easily integrate itself with windows.

3) No Registry.

Registry is another place where viruses put their information so what happens even if you delete files infected with virus.It rewrites its information from registry and it is also too difficult to find where virus hides its information in registry.Linux uses configuration files rather than registry so another big hole for viruses is closed and as i mentioned in point 1 that linux doesn’t allow any normal user to edit system files.

4) No Internet Explorer (IE)

Internet Explorer (IE) which is installed in windows by default is another big hole for virus.It has been proved by many times by research that IE is has lots of vulnerabilities.Linux has Mozilla firefox browser installed by default which is the most secure browser and blocks most of viruses and trojans and doesn’t allow any website to install any software without your permission.

5) Linux is not so common like windows.

Although developers of linux has improved it a lot and has also worked to make it user friendly but still linux is unsuccessful to capture most of the desktop users.Most of the viruses are made for desktop users rather than servers because servers are monitored by system administrators and have security softwares,Hardware firewalls and much more to protect them against viruses.Because linux is not common like windows number of viruses created for linux is also minimum.

I really recommend u guys to use linux ubuntu as ur operating system.