Germany Publishes Windows to Linux Migration Guide

Bombcar writes "This Migration Document is also available. It has details on going from WinNT to Linux/FLOSS/Samba et.al, with less detail on RedHat/Ximian/GNOME and more on SuSE/Mandrake/KDE. See Kurt's post to Samba Technical for more details."

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my guide

[Anonymous Coward]

1) wipe the hard drive 20 times
2) get refund from microsoft
3) unlearn everything you thought you knew
4) read, read, read
5) install the penguin
6) read, read, read
7) tinker, tinker,tinker
8) convert others ;)
9) goto step 1
10) pay the SCO guys ...

Bad for economy

[ultranova]

In my humble opinion, migrating from Windows to Linux is bad for economy. Think about it. While new versions of Windows are packed full of advanced, bleeding-edge innovations, the new Linux versions are mostly indistinguishable from each other. Or can anyone here claim that migrating from Linux 2.2 to 2.4 brought a single new icon to their desktops ? Maybe 2.6 will bring a much-needed improvement to this. Back to economy. It's a well-known fact that a healthy economy demands an increase in spending. This, in turn, requires people to buy things. If people can get what they need for free, then they don't pay, spending decreases, economy suffers, and so do people. Therefore, it's the duty of every patriotic citizen to help economy by avoiding "free" stuff. Furthermore, it's a well-known fact that Linux lasts almost forever without maintenance; there's still people running 2.2 ! Obviously, this is a bad thing for economy. With Windows, there's the healthy drive to update every few years, followed by an equally healthy drive to update your hardware as well. Besides, think about it - the biggest Linux distributor is REDhat ! Now what does that remind us of ? That's right - when you're downloading Linux, you're downloading Communism !

Re:Bad for economy

[arcanumas]

Thank you for opening my eyes! How could i have been so blind all those years!
I am deleting my Linux partition and i am buying WindowsXP as we speak.
I too want to take spending away from trivial items and spend all my money for WindowsXP.

Re:Bad for economy

[Ralph Yarro]

Therefore, it's the duty of every patriotic citizen to help economy by avoiding "free" stuff.

Indeed! I'm glad you brought this up, because the REAL damage to the economy is being done by people using supposedly "free" air instead of buying proprietary Canopy canned air. I thikn a lot of people have no idea how many jobs are being lost over this.

But it's even worse than you may imagine. When people do use our proprietary canned air, some of it can leak into the atmosphere and mix with so-called-free air. That's right, the atmosphere of the entire planet is a derivative of our product, and people are not paying licenses to use it.

If you ever breathe then please respect our IP rights and pay our one time $699 license fee and we promise to almost definitely not bring any legal action over this against you in the future.

I ask you, do providers of "free" air indemnify you against this sort of action?

Now...

[t4b00]

If we could only talk M$ into converting over....

Re:Sounds like a good idea

[Anonymous Coward]

"Good Luck!" translated to German: "Tretet den M$'lern ordentlich in den Arsch und seht zu das eure Euro's EURE Euro's bleiben."

Re:woot!

[Swift(void)]

Still on windows, no doubt

Something tells me....

[TygerFish]

Something tells me that laxative sales in Redmond have just plummeted!

Help ! - I need to migrate !

[bushboy]

After reading this article, I really feel the need to migrate !

Of course, if anyone could supply me with information on getting the following working under linux, I'd be very happy ! :-

1. Microsoft Encarta
2. Microsoft Golf
3. Internet Explorer 5.0
4. Windows Media Player
5. Zonealarm
6. Adaware
7. Nortons Anti-Virus

I'd really love some help - I need these quality applications to run in a Linux box, otherwise I just can't migrate !

Arrhghgh !