I think most of us here have probably migrated to some extent. Most people have had systems running windows, and if they're here, they most likely run linux in addition, at least. However to explain my ordeal with migrating, lets just say, migrating to linux actually requires you to read the manual. Okay thats a lie, using redhat, or mandrake or something like that, you could do without reading anything. However to migrate to gentoo, or similar, you HAVE to read the documentation. Otherwise things just won't work.
For example, my sound stuff wasn't setup right, so every time I restarted my system I had to modprobe all the oss drivers. A few changes to devfs conf files and everything worked fine. (However, if I had read the documentation it says, make sure... and thats what I didn't do.) Another thing to watch out for is hardware compatability. Its getting to be less and less of an issue, but it still is one. If you've got an unsuported legacy video card (not sure there really are any) then you might want to avoid migrating. There's also the "issue" of too much choice. If you're new to linux and are using it as a workstation, it might be overwhelming. I mean, how many different WMs are there?? Then if you're running a mail server, all those dang virtual/mtas theres sendmail courier qmail etc. The good news is that the best solution for sound is XMMS which acts very similar to winamp, so you don't have to relearn everything. Honestly windows is good for people who don't know anything about computers. Older people who don't want to learn, or younger kids you don't want to screw up the hard drive by sending bad commands via hdparm. I honestly suggest going and installing redhat. You can't do too much damage with an installation of that. Then when you feel competent with that, destroy it and install gentoo. That'll put anyone in their place. :) On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:22, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > In September I start to write a paper for my degree in IT, its about migration a > company from Windows to Opensource (Linux) and perhaps i can do it one day in the > real live also :-). > > I have already the "why migrate", prices, the programs, TOC and so on. I just have > to write the white paper for how to do the actual migration. Is here anyone on the > list who has done this in the 'real live' and is willing to share his experiance and > perhaps his white paper with me? This would help me a lot. > > Patrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
