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IBM preps Power6 by putting AIX 5.3 on life support
2 years, 5 months ago
IBM's Power6 push began this week with a tweak to AIX support. In a letter to customers, IBM vowed to support future updates to AIX 5.3 for an additional two years. This appears to be IBM's Power6 concession, since the vendor, according to our sources, will announce Power6 systems this month and ship them in the middle of the year but won't have AIX 5.4 available for months. -
Migrating Active Directory into Linux
3 years ago
Jane Walker writes "Although Windows and Linux can provide similar functionality, you won't find one-to-one matching features when you are migrating an Active Directory repository to Linux. In this tip, an expert describes two methods for migrating user information from AD into Linux." -
Clearing Linux desktop migration hurdles
3 years, 1 month ago
Jane Walker writes "Frank van Wensveen helps users begin their desktop migration away from Windows. In the first part of this series, he describes different user demographics and the criteria for determining whether to migrate or not." -
Versora Progression Desktop 2.0 review
3 years, 3 months ago
Anonymous Reader writes "Versora's Progression Desktop migration tool gets better with every release. Now on version 2.0, the developers have expanded the capabilities of the software and qualified it with many more operating systems. It's never been easier to transfer your settings from Windows to GNU/Linux." -
Free proprietary lock-in: Middleware app servers
3 years, 3 months ago
Jane Walker writes "Consider Red Hat's Java EE-based JBoss as the open source, enterprise-ready answer to your Windows-to-Linux migrations. This application server comes with migration program support services and certified system integrators to facilitate enterprise-level migration." -
Migrating applications from Windows to Linux/Unix
3 years, 3 months ago
Jane Walker writes "If you're planning a Win-to-Lin migration, it's important to consider how factors like platform-specific and -independent apps and source-ported apps will affect your future." -
Sendmail to Qmail migration
3 years, 4 months ago
Aneesh P K writes "A challenging task for any sysadmin implementing a Migration, would be to migrate all the email accounts from one Mail server to another preserving all the settings, such as usernames and passwords. This article explains how to migrate email accounts/mailboxes from a sendmail server to a Qmail server." -
Mactel Linux up and running
3 years, 8 months ago
sjvn writes "While we don't know how Edgar 'Gimli' Hucek did it yet, what we do know is that he appears to be the first to get Linux running on a Mactel. It had been expected that porting Linux to a Mactel would happen relatively quickly, unlike, say porting Windows to the same hardware. But, although there were rumors that Red Hat Inc. engineers were working on it, the honor of getting there first goes to Hucek." -
Sweet benefits for BDO Seidman SugarCRM migration
3 years, 9 months ago
Jane Walker writes "When an internal CRM application needed a performance boost at national financial firm BDO Seidman, the answer lay in open source SugarCRM." -
Resolvo Launches MoveOver Standard Version 4.0.0
4 years ago
Alicia Loh writes "Singapore's Resolvo Systems has officially announced the release of their latest MoveOver Standard Version 4.0.0 that supports Novell Linux Desktop 9 and Linspire Five-0. MoveOver Standard is a user-friendly, wizard-driven migration tool, targeted at home and individual users, to migrate the entire Windows environment to a new Linux Desktop in just 2 simple steps." -
In Pursuit of Good Desktop Linux:
Ease of Use and Ease of Migration Overview -- KDE, GNOME, and
4 years, 2 months ago
The look, feel, and features of the Linux desktop metaphor and environment are important ingredients of a good desktop Linux. Experienced Linux users can, of course, implement and configure their desktops to look, feel, and function almost any way they wish. -
DesktopOS.com Interviews Joseph Cheek regarding Lycoris and Mandriva
4 years, 4 months ago
Anonymous Reader writes "What Follows is an interview with Joseph Cheek President and CEO of Lycoris and Tim Mullins founder and webmaster of DesktopOS.com regarding the recent acquisition of Lycoris by Mandriva." -
Dutch Agency Equips 200 Users With NX-based KDE Desktops
4 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Dryell writes "KDE.net writes: "Last weekend at Annahoeve in Achtmaal the Dutch Refugee Council of Midden Gelderland announced that they succesfully completed a pilot where they migrated 100 machines and 200 users using NX technology and the KDE desktop. Jasper van der Marel held a presentation during the Dutch KDE-PIM meeting where he explained how the current setup was done." -
Solaris to Linux migration step-by-step workplan
4 years, 6 months ago
IBM offers a Solaris-to-Linux migration roadmap to guide in your porting and rehosting efforts with a step-by-step workplan. Use these resources to analyze, plan, and educate yourself about the features, functions and benefits of Linux. Find information to set up your development environment, as well as, porting, compiling, testing and optimizing your migration to Linux. -
Migration prep, part 2: Comparing MySQL and MS SQL
4 years, 7 months ago
Mark Brunelli, News Editor writes "Microsoft SQL Server has features that can’t be found in MySQL 4, according to Mike Sheffey, CEO of migration tool vendor Versora. But that situation is probably temporary. In our second installment on migrating to MySQL, Sheffey explains what you need to know about those differences." - More News
Linux.com : Migration
Slumberland rests easy after move away from proprietary Unix
In 2005, when Slumberland faced end-of-lifecycle replacements of its proprietary Unix platform, its warehouse management system (WMS) vendor suggested a move to Red Hat Linux and commodity x86 servers. Seth Mitchell, the infrastructure team manager at the large furniture retailer, gladly agreed. Upper management wasn't quite as quick to jump on the open source bandwagon, but once the cost savings started rolling in, everyone agreed that it was a profitable decision.
Van Dam Iron Works vacillates between Linux and Windows
When Ben Rousch joined Van Dam Iron Works close to a decade ago, it didn't take him long to move off a proprietary network operating system and start experimenting with a Linux server. He changed horses again, to a Windows server, but today Van Dam is back in the Linux fold -- lesson learned.
Bank group takes Linux migration a step at a time
Metropolitan Bank Group is a large conglomerate in Illinois, comprising 10 banks and $3 billion in assets. As Metropolitan acquired more banking interests, IT Director Tom Johnson needed to find a way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the face of the company's rapid growth. The solution was a migration from Windows to Linux.
Moving my mother over to Linux
To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades. She doesn't need a cutting-edge computer because she's not a power user, but she does need a reliable machine to run a few basic applications and to access the Internet. I moved my mother from Windows to Ubuntu Linux, and the experience was a surprisingly smooth one.
Financial group trusts Linux platform to protect customers' assets
Western & Southern Financial Group provides insurance and investment advice for businesses and consumers. The conservative nature of the business means that Western & Southern needed the most secure and reliable infrastructure available. After years of running the Sybase database on Sun's Solaris servers, IT Systems Manager Paul Jackson recognized the need to get the platform "up to speed." When he checked on the cost to replace the proprietary hardware and operating system the company had relied on for so long, it was so expensive that he began looking for another solution.
LTSP saves old hardware in Brazilian doctor's office
Integrated Neurology Service SINEURO's office, located in São Paulo, Brazil, migrated from various versions of Windows (from 98 to XP) on a network of five computers with eight nonskilled computer users. I was the consultant in charge, and I spent no money on new hardware. Thank to the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), hardware that's too old for new versions of Windows runs Linux applications just fine over a network from a server.
Linux to get the boot at US Army Corps of Engineers?
According to an anonymous source working at the Geotechnical & Structures Lab of the US Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Miss., a committee of government employees and contractors at Vicksburg is considering a new IT policy which will force everyone to move to Windows XP if they are not already running it, and to port all applications save one currently running on Linux to Windows. The lone exception would be moved to Solaris.
Mindbridge switches to Linux, saves "bunches of money"
Mindbridge didn't start out as an open source company -- far from it. "We had a predominantly Microsoft-oriented shop," says David Christian, Mindbridge CTO. But the company, which at the time offered an "intranet in a box" application, began hosting the software for its clients. "That required us to get a good handle on Linux, because Linux was the only inexpensive, cost-efficient way of handling that in a scaled environment," Christian says. "And I didn't want to add Microsoft to our customers' overhead." The more Christian worked with Linux, the more he liked it. And, as they say, the rest is history.
The Etherboot/gPXE BoF from LinuxWorld 2007 (videos)
EtherBoot isn't an application you install on your Linux desktop, but if you run computers that boot over a network -- or would like to explore network booting for either fun or profit -- it is an essential free software project.
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