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 !