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WINDOWS VS. LINUX In consideration of purchasing a new computer system, one needs to consider the “operating system” or “environment” options available on the market. Microsoft’s “Windows” is not the only OS available nor is necessarily the best. During the recent Linux World conference, Linux proponents loudly celebrated Linux’ increasing importance in the world of software; but as Linux matures, they are going to have to compete head-on with their better funded and user-tested Microsoft counterparts on average users desktops to compete successfully. While Linux is a kernel, an operating system (not a complete operating environment in the sense that Windows is a complete operating environment), it is instead a tradeoff of choice. Linux and Widows are two entirely different solutions to approach similar computing needs. Computing upon a Windows platform can be extremely challenging and frustrating. Reliability of Windows operating systems is tolerated at best. All Wndows users are familiar with the “Blue Screen of Death”. Poor reliability is one of the major drawbacks of Windows. Some of the major issues have been fixed in Windows 2000, but “code bloat” has imposed many more reliability pro