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Clearing enterprise Linux desktop adoption hurdles, part 2
Frank van Wensveen helps users begin their desktop migration away from Windows. In the second half of this two-part series, he lists open source counterparts to proprietary software and suggests strategies for a successful pilot program. Tip
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Porting criteria: Migrating apps from Unix to Linux
Don't skimp on testing or creating a sandbox environment to play in when porting your Unix apps to Linux. This is only one piece of advice an expert gives in his Unix porting guide. Tip
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Open source stacks move into critical operations
IT managers must understand the changing dynamic of open source software stacks if they hope to benefit from flexibility and vendor independence down the road, says analyst Raven Zachary. Article
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Chapter 7 of 'Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated by Perl 5'
Chapter 7, Multidimensional Rays, describes arrays that can contain scalars, just like Perl 5, but they're also able to directly hold a list of numbers. Tip
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"Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim"
Chapter 2 -- The Open Source Development Process -- describes creating an open source project and community and, in the process, become an open source citizen in good standing. Tip
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Finding the bottlenecks, Chapter 6, of 'Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization'
Chapter 6 -- Finding the bottlenecks -- of "Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization: From Novice to Professional" covers how to use and alter commands for reading system and configuration variables. Tip
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Chapter 15 -- Handling file uploads -- of 'Beginning PHP and MySQL 5'
Chapter 15 -- Handling file uploads -- of 'Beginning PHP and MySQL 5' describes role of PHP's file-upload functions
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Chapter 2 -- Laying out the foundations -- of 'Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-commerce'
Chapter 2 -- Laying out the foundations -- of "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-commerce" provides an analysis of application architecture and technical administration of the project. Tip
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OSS alternatives to proprietary desktop apps
Open source apps and software expert Bernard Golden recommends Firefox and OpenOffice 2.0 as two open source alternative to proprietary Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Ask the Expert
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Getting started with Linux: Installing, find apps for enterprise Linux
In this tip, an expert lists open source and Linux-supporting software that could replace proprietary apps and gives advice on finding application support. Tip