Difference between windows and Linux

	Windows	Linux
1	Windows separates directories with a back slash	Linux uses a normal forward slash
2	Windows file names are not case sensitive	Linux file names are case sensitive
3	Windows uses a volume-based file hierarchy	Linux uses a unified scheme
4	Windows uses letters of the alphabet to represent different devices and different hard disk partitions. eg: c: , d: , e: etc	linux " / " is the main directory.
5	Windows separates directories with a back slash	Linux uses a normal forward slash
6	Windows is not customizable	Linux is customizable
7	Windows- Win9x,-Windows 95, 98, 98SE and Me, NT class" and consist of Windows NT3, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista	Linux-Linspire, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, Knoppix, Slackware, Lycoris,
8		Linux typically provides two GUIs, KDE and Gnome
9	Windows is expensive	Linux is very cheap or free
10	NTLDR-Controls the operating system boot selection process and hardware detection before the actual Windows XP Kernel is launched Windows-This is the main folder containing all the Windows XP system files, and the default folder for Windows XP. System32. Contains the core operating system files and subfolder trees.	/bin/ ---- system binaries, user programs with normal user permissions   /sbin  --- executables that need root permission   /data/ --- a user defined directory   /dev/ ---- system device tree   /etc/ ---- system configuration   /home/ --- users' subdirectories   /home/{username} akin to the Windows My Documents folder   /tmp/ ---- system temporary files   /usr/ ---- applications software   /usr/bin - executables for programs with user permission   /var/ ---- system variables   /lib   --- libraries needed for installed programs to run