Moving from Windows to Linux, or just trying to make the two live peacefully in your IT world? This guide offers best practices, troubleshooting guides and expert advice about Windows-to-Linux migration, integration and interoperability. You'll find migration
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Basics
- Definition and links: Linux (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Definition and links: Windows (SearchWinIT.com)
- Definition and links: Open source (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Article: A roadmap for developers making the transition to Linux (IBM
DeveloperWorks)
This article targets developers, but much of the information about Linux can be useful to any IT pro.
- Advice: Starting the transition from Windows to Linux (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Chapter download: Test Driving Linux by David Brickner (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
Server migration
- Article: Users tackle question of Linux vs. Windows on the server (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Windows-to-Linux roadmap (IBM Developerworks)
- Database makes peace between Windows and Linux (vnunet)
- NT eyed as Windows-to-Linux migration link (InternetNews.com)
- Windows-to-Linux migration and porting resource page (Novell)
Desktop migration
- Tip: First steps to Linux desktops, calculating ROI and using more Linux (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: MS-to-Linux desktops with Alacos' migration tool (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: Windows-to-Linux desktop migration tips: Why to switch, how to plan (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Advice: Easing the desktop migration (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Learning guide: Desktop Linux (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Advice: Expert describes Samba in action (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Troubleshooters.com's issue on its Windows-to-Linux desktop migration (Troubleshooters.com)
Porting Windows applications to Linux
- Expert advice: What tools can I use to simplify porting apps from Windows to Linux? (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: Clearing the Active Directory hurdle (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: Dumping Internet Explorer, choosing Mozilla (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Opera: Another contender in the browser wars (SearchSecurity)
- Tip: Where's the Firefox security button? (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Advice: Migrating to Linux: To Notes or not to Notes? (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: Windows-to-Linux mail server migration with Kerio
(SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Interview series: Linux answers some enterprise messaging challenges (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Interview: Mozilla's benefits (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- About Wine (WineHQ.com)
- Migrating Win32 C/C++ applications to Linux on POWER: Process, thread, and shared memory services (IBM Developerworks)
- Resources from Novell:
Interoperability
- Tip: Connecting Excel to Linux databases (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: Samba-3: Windows file and directory ACLs (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: Taking Samba beyond file and print serving, part one (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Tip: RHEL4 and Windows integration using Samba (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Article: PostgreSQL 8.0 will run on Windows (CNET News.com)
- Article: Windows compatibility for the Linux desktop (O'Reilly)
- Article: Novell releases Ximian Connector to open source (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Article: VMware Workstation 4.5 focuses on enterprise (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Microsoft's Windows Interoperability Resources (Microsoft.com)
Trends & opinions
- Column: 2006: Time to plan your company's escape from Microsoft (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Article: Can Microsoft become one of the OSS guys? (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Article: US-CERT study faults app security more than Linux (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Column: Why and when open source products best Microsoft (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Interview: Don't choose or pitch Linux, open source just for cost savings (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
- Article: Mandriva sees a corporate Linux desktop in your future (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
This was first published in February 2006