When we talk about the advantages of an operating system over another often very personal motivations or simply negotiate for a product bearing account for the appearance of a confrontation thus hampering a constructive dialogue. But what makes today really different Linux from Windows? Where the penguin has managed to reduce the technological gap past or even exceed the environment where Microsoft and the developers still have to work? Here is a complete and updated list of pros and cons:

- Open source / Closed source: access to the kernel sources is probably the most important difference that exists between Linux and Windows. The GPL provides users the ability to alter at will the code behind the penguin without incurring penalties. But there is another side of the coin. For some public access to sources makes the operating system more vulnerable to attack as it simplifies the task of users and developers to discover and exploit flaws and weaknesses.

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