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Firefox 5 vs Firefox 6 | Firefox 5.0.1 vs 6.0 Mozilla has released Firefox 5 during June 2011, which was very soon followed by Firefox 6 beta release in July 2011. Mozilla released Firefox 6.0 beta version for beta channel users on 8th July 2011. The official release of Firefox 6.0 is on 16th August 2011. Following... 

VirtualBox vs VMware vs Parallels Platform Virtual Machines (VM) are being used very heavily because they provide the ability to emulate a complete physical computer machine on top of another. Most of such software allows having multiple machines on top of one physical platform. VirtualBox, VMware and Parallels... 

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion vs Windows 7 Operating system is the system software that manages the computer’s resources and accommodates their communication needs. Operating systems are one of the most rivaled products in the IT market. Windows and Mac OS X are two of the fiercest competitors of operating systems. Microsoft... 

Ubuntu vs Linux Linux is a family of Unix-like operating systems. All the members in this family include a Linux kernel. Ubuntu is a variation of one of the Linux distributions called Debian. Ubuntu is intended for personal computers and not for large servers. Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution with 12... 

Paging vs Swapping Paging is a memory management method used by operating systems. Paging allows the main memory to use data that is residing on a secondary storage device. These data are stored in the secondary storage device as blocks of equal size called pages. Paging allows the operating system to use data... 

GUI vs Command Line Two most popular ways to interact with a computer are the Command Line and the GUI (Graphical User Interface). Command line is a text only interface, while GUI is an Interface, composed of graphical symbols. Most of the times, all the general tasks performed using a GUI can be performed by... 

Kernel vs Operating System Operating system is the system software that manages the computer. Its tasks include managing the computer resources and accommodating their communication needs. The Kernel is the main part of an operating system that mostly caries out direct communication with the hardware resources.... 

Paging vs Segmentation Paging is a memory management method used by operating systems. Paging allows the main memory to use data that is residing on a secondary storage device. These data are stored in the secondary storage device as blocks of same size called pages. Paging allows the operating system to use... 

Windows 7 vs Windows 8 Windows 8 will be the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems developed by Microsoft. Windows is intended for personal computers (i.e. home/business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablePCs and media center PCs). Windows 8 is supposed to be released in late 2012. Typically,... 

CentOS vs RedHat RedHat Linux was one of the most popular Linux based operating systems until 2004, when it was discontinued. However, Red Hat now (after 2004) develops a commercial version of Red Hat called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS is a free Linux based operating system, which is directly based... 

Yum vs RPM During the initial Linux installation, larger selection of programs is installed by default, but there may be occasions where a user needs new programs installed. Some time back, users were required to compile and build source code to install a new program. But now, users can easily install pre-built... 

Fedora vs RedHat RedHat Linux was one of the most popular Linux-based operating systems until 2004 when it was discontinued. However, Red Hat still develops a commercial version of Red Hat called Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora is a free Linux operating system developed by Fedora project community. Fedora is actually... 

GRUB vs LILO Boot loader is the program that loads the operating systems when the computer is turned on. Typically, boot loaders give the ability to select from a list of operating systems to load during the startup of the computer. So, boot loader allows the coexistence of multiple operating systems on the same... 

Solaris 10 vs Solaris 11 Solaris is an operating system that belongs to the UNIX family of operating systems. It is now owned by Oracle who bought it from its original developers Sun Microsystems in January 2010. Consequently, it is now known as Oracle Solaris. Solaris was the first operating systems to introduce... 

UNIX vs Solaris UNIX is an Operating System (OS) developed by AT&T in 1960s with the intention of providing a multiuser, multitasking system for the programmers. UNIX was designed based on the principle that the simple but powerful utilities could be integrated flexibly to provide a wide range of tasks. However,... 

Software vs Firmware Firmware is a special name given to software that is embedded in an electronic gadget or device to make it run. Since it is a kind of software, trying to differentiate it with software may not be fruitful. What we can do is to explain the roles and functions of firmware and software to draw...