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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."
The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines
Exactly. With Open Source, everybody benefits when anybody contributes. The dividends are shared, yet not diminished by the act of sharing.
Consider a bank paying interest at 5% and run along traditional lines, but with just three investors: Anna, Bob and Charlie. Anna invests $1000. Bob invests $200. Charlie invests $3000. A year later, they get their interest payments.
Anna receives 5% of $1000 = $50.
Bob receives 5% of $200 = $10.
Charlie receives 5% of $3000 = $150.
With a bank that worked the way Open Source works, Interest Calculations would be done more like this:
Anna has $1000. Bob has $200. Charlie has $3000.
Anna receives 5% of $4200 = $210.
Bob receives 5% of $4200 = $210.
Charlie receives 5% of $4200 = $210.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
And banks would be going bankrupt pretty fucking quickly if they followed your idiotic logic.
That's because banks operate on a scarce resource (money). Knowledge/code/data is a scarce resource only artificially, and therefore sharing it increases the total amount that is available.
Obviously, this reduces the bottom line of huge corporations that charge lots of money of what should/could/is starting to be a commodity (OS and Office Suite vendors). Most of them are in the US (MSFT and SUNW), so Europe doesn't really have that much motivation to preserve their status. Europe loses nothing and gains jobs, expertise, openness and wealth.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
I have never got involved in MS Vs. Linux religios wars! However, this summer my mom came to visit me in Germany (from Asia) and from her experience with both OSs i have a better opinion!
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I am a PhD. candidate. My work is wrapped around simulations for which I trust Linux/Debian. At house i've Suse 8.2 simply because it was the most painless installation of any OS i had ever made in my life.
My mom has an incurable habit of reading and writing. When she arrived i thought i would use the holidays to teach her to "use-the-mouse" and if that succeeds then treach her to do "google and surf" . I thought internet would probably catch her interest. I have to admit what follows was a lesson for me too.
Agreeing to the user-friendliness of Windows, i contemplated of installing XP as i thought it would make the job easier for her. It took some days before i could do that so for the intermediate phase i exposed mom to the already installed Suse. Partly because of my under-estimation of her IQ, and mostly because of her determination to prove to me that PhD is "just another degree" she could do "mouse" and "google" in a couple of days (half an hour after her first lone journey into the internet, i found 50+ empty mozilla browsers running!).
About a week later i installed XP (partition) and asked her to use it instead. Here is the summary of her questions/discussion before i switched her back to Suse!
1. Who are Carina, Angelaxxx, SusyDeep, TOM, etc? and why do you have friends like that??!?!?!
I use t-online. Unsolicited messages are norm. People familiar with these messages would know the content of these messages! No matter how much i try to convince mom that i have nothing to do with "those friends" she is still suspicious of me
2. "People have lost fortunes in gambling. Its the slippery back of the snail. Stop gambling."
You see, when she opened a website in Explorer she recieved web-advertisements. A lot of them. I do not know the reason and i do not have the statistics to back it up, but i have also felt that the number of advertisements/pop-ups are far more in MS Windows/Explorer as compared to Mozilla/Linux. She had seen advertisements from online casinos!
3. There is something wrong with your computer because i can not read the text?
It is one of those things that is almost unbelievable but the website (our local newspaper in Urdu language) which she could read in Mozilla simply did not show the text in Explorer. I know you would say "font" but hey which OS had all the fonts on its side!
4. There is something wrong with your power-supply plug!
Thats what she thought was the reason for the machine "rebooting" itself every now and then. Honestly, i have not had the time to figure out why XP does this on my AMD Athlon machine- auto-reboot 2/3 times per week? Till the time i know the exact reason i would just think that there is something wrong with power-supply cable!
etc. etc.
You get the picture why i simply switched back.
I will add one thing before i pen off. I installed Suse 8.2 from DVD and it was the most painless installation experience of my life... 14-15 minutes and everything was working, including nVidia card and the DSL! I got to tell you that it went so smooth that i really thought that something was wrong! Once the system was running i could update everything (patches etc.) within half an hour with 2-3 clicks of mouse. I love Debian's "apt-get" now i love YAST too.
I have a much better opinion now. Thanks mom.
p.s.
Back home, she is insisting that my younger brother install the "soosey" too
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