... business to understand the needs that it will be fulfilling with each of these operating systems. Today hardware prices have significantly dropped allowing the purchase of an average desktop to be $300 estimate and server to be $1199. The Linux operating system requires very little hardware resource for its desktop and server as opposed to Windows. But with low hardware prices the playing ground has been leveled therefore, hardware is not much of an issue. Hardware only becomes an issue when upgrading the Windows operating system. Each time Windows comes out with a new operating system the hardware requirements changes. Windows XP hardware requirements were Pentium 233MHz, 128mb RAM and 1.5GB hard drive space. Windows Vista hardware requirements are Pentium 1GHz, 1GB RAM and 15GB hard drive space. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304297, 2007) Linux on the other hand, hardware requirements do not change based on the distribution that one is working with. Red ...

See this essay or coursework document in full right now