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Efficient Comparison between Windows and Linux Platform Applicable in a Virtual Architectural Walkthrough Application

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This paper describes Linux, an open source platform used to develop and run a virtual architectural walkthrough application. It proposes some qualitative reflections and observations on the nature of Linux in the concept of Virtual Reality (VR) and on the most popular and important claims associated with the open source approach. The ultimate goal of this paper is to measure and evaluate the performance of Linux used to build the virtual architectural walkthrough and develop a proof of concept based on the result obtain through this project. Besides that, this study reveals the benefits of using Linux in the field of virtual reality and reflects a basic comparison and evaluation between Windows and Linux base operating system. Windows platform is use as a baseline to evaluate the performance of Linux. The performance of Linux is measured based on three main criteria which is frame rate, image quality and also mouse motion.

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Acknowledgment

We would like to thank all lecturers and reviewers for their helpful comments. This project was partially supported by School of Computer and Communication Engineering at University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia. Furthermore, we thank all users for their feedback.

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  1. School of Computer and Communication, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kuala Perlis, Malaysia

    P. Thubaasini, R. Rusnida & S. M. Rohani

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, University Avenue 221, Bridgeport, 06604, USA

    Tarek Sobh

  2. School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, University Avenue 221, Bridgeport, 06604, USA

    Khaled Elleithy

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Thubaasini, P., Rusnida, R., Rohani, S.M. (2010). Efficient Comparison between Windows and Linux Platform Applicable in a Virtual Architectural Walkthrough Application. In: Sobh, T., Elleithy, K. (eds) Innovations in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9112-3_57

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