1. Why is Linux Better ? Abhishek Gupta Free Software Evangelist [email_address]

2. Dollars 3. Don't pay Rs10,000 for your OS

Don't copy them illegally

4. The price for a Windows license amounts to an average of one fourth of each new computer's price 5. You can get Linux completely free of charge. 6. These guys all around the world worked very hard to make a neat, secure, efficient, good-looking system 7. Some companies are making good business by selling support, documentation, hotline, etc., for their own version of Linux but most of the time its free. 8. 9. Why copy software illegally if you can get it for free?

Software makers are progressing and finding more and more ways to track down illegal owners

10. On line functionality on the software that will control and verify your copy each time you launch it. 11. If you run Linux and install free software, you won't have to worry about this ever again! 12. Most of free (as in free speech) software is free (as in free beer). 13. You can find a free replacement for most of the commercial software out there. 14. List of some commercial software, and their open source equivalents :

CommercialOpen source Exists onWindows?

15. Adobe Illustrator (~$500) InkscapeYes 16. Adobe InDesign (~$700) Scribus Yes 17. Adobe Photoshop (~$600) The GIMP Yes 18. Adobe Premiere (~$800) Kino, Cinelerra No 19. Adobe Reader (free) Evince, Kpdf, GV No 20. Apple iTunes (free) AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee No 21. MSOffice (~$600) OpenOfficeYes 22. Cont.....

Microsoft Internet Explorer (free) Firefox, Konqueror

23. Microsoft Windows Media Player (free) Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine Yes 24. MSN Messenger (free) Pidgin, Kopete, aMSN Yes 25. Nero (~$100) K3b,Gnomebaker No 26. Palm Desktop (free) Gnome-Pilot, KPilot No 27. Quark XPress (~$800) Scribus Yes 28. QuickTime Player (free) Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine Yes 29. Winamp (free) AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee No 30. 31. Forget about viruses.

Linux virus is not impossible to get

32. Linux makes it very hard for this to happen 33. Linux uses smart authorization management. In Windows you usually have the right to do pretty much anything to the system. 34. Linux doesn't allow that. Viruses can't just go around and delete or modify what they want in the system; they don't have the authorization for that. 35. More eyes make fewer security flaws. 36. Freedom 37. Freedom!

Linux and "Open Source" software are "free"

38. "free license", and the most common is the GPL 39. Anyone allowed copy the software, see source code, modify it, and redistribute ,as long as it remains licensed with the GPL. 40. With Open Source, if a particular project or support company dies, all the code remains open to the community and people can keep improving it. 41. If a bug annoys you, you can report it or you can fix it yourself, and send the changes back to the upstream so that everyone gets the improvement as well. You're free to do (nearly) whatever you want with the software. 42. 43. No backdoors in your software.

The problem is they can put whatever they want in the source, without us knowing.

44. Microsoft probably doesn't do that, but how would you know, since everything is closed, invisible, secret? 45. The recipes are public. People who understand it can read it, and speak out. 46. That's why you can be sure open source software doesn't do bad things behind your back: the community keeps a close eye on all the recipes. 47. Forget about drivers

Linux doesn't need separate drivers.

48. A very fast and standalone installation process. . 49. Out-of-the-box ready peripherals. 50. Less harm for the planet because all these CDs don't need to come with hardware any more (well, at least once Windows don't need them either...). 51. Jump into the next generation of desktops.

You have been impressed by the 3D and transparency possibilities first introduced in Windows Vista, and decided that these unique capabilities were worth a few hundred dollars? You even bought a new computer so that you could meet Vista's (very high) requirements?

52. Fooled you: Linux can do better, for free, and with much less demanding hardware requirements. 53. 54. Environment

Windows and Mac OS are sold in boxes. This means that massive amounts of paper and plastic need to be manufactured before the boxes get to your nearby store's shelves .

55. Linux is freely downloadable from the Internet; no amount of plastic or paper is involved. 56. As the hardware requirements for Windows or Mac OS get higher and higher, a lot of computers are made obsolete, and would need to be disposed of... but since Linux runs pretty well even on very old machines, they can be recycled for various purposes instead of being thrown out!