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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Buy an lcd, cheapskate. Or take the pdf to your company and print the whole thing out.
- grungyhamster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well I would not consider myself a noob and I find the link interesting.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oops, something happened with that first link.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246380.pdf - SimonC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Did you bother to RTFM or look at the book? It *IS* for entire IT departments. This is NOT "how to switch your PC to Linux". And it seems to fulfill its purpose well, actually.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Direct link to PDF: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246380.html
Link to page containing PDF link: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246380.html
The news article just appears to be a re-ordered cut-and-paste from the second link. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Two words: VERY COOL.
- networkr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5This would qualify as thorough reading material that I would not hesitate to put the link up in my open source consulting / advocacy website. Nice work IBM!
- xanderdad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The entire section you quote seems very credible to me. And there is a lot more than just email and web browsing that you can do before you can say yes to one of those questions
- Shaman666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"get less functionality and no one iota more security"
Sorry pal. This is utter tripe. - displaynone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yuck 376-pages....AHHH ADD ATTACK!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm sure since it's coming from IBM it covers enterprise solutions, which admittedly, few of your average high school Diggers would find useful. For the rest of us, however, it's a great resource and will help many in the future.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is it me, or is every response to this article getting un-dugg at least once?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Books like this should cover linux *concepts* which are universal, not specific distros. We all saw what happened when the big distros tried to compromise and standardize (not pretty).
Oh ***** I just realized a fed a troll. Oops. - MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Haha. My reaction, as a Tech, was about the same. I can't get these people to read help bubbles on their apps, let alone a friggin' 376 page document.
Get real. - i440, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That frequently occurs, I've noticed, soon after an article makes it to the front page.
- drgalaxy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Unfortunately in "1.2 Identifying Suitable Environments":
"""Critical questions need to be asked:
- Is the customer's employee population strictly dependent on a third-party
application, plug-in, or devices that are only supported on Windows?
- Has the customer intensively developed custom applications based on native
Win32® APIs and programming environments, such as Visual Basic® or
other Windows scripting languages?
- Is the customer's entire employee population dependent on advanced
Microsoft Office based functions? (for example, dependencies on complex
macros)?
If either answer is yes to any of these questions, then a Linux-based solution may be a less-suitable alternative, or present a more complex (higher initial deployment cost) solution strategy that will require careful consideration."""
So basically... if the office does any computing more complex than email and web browsing, you can't migrate to Free Software OSs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is better:
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/
or
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/exports/lnag.doc
or
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/exports/lnag.pdf
or
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/exports/lnag_html.zip - spoonyluv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Of course thanks to the 124128471289127398 Linux distros out there, this book will only apply to 3 of them and will become obsolete in 3 weeks when half the packages and the kernel get updated next.
- abuser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Three hundr... what?
Call me when the book becomes 37.6 pages... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4OMG I can't wait to read 93384 PDF pages while my monitor burns holes through my eyeballs.
- spoonyluv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0mmmmm......me troll happy......been fed.
books about *concepts* for how to convert your business to a new product or technology rock!!!! they are the reason we consultants have work to do. Most of my clients tried to do the work themselves based on a book of *concepts* before calling. If you need a 376 page book to understand the concepts, then you don't have the knowledge or experience to understand the context for using each concept and for implementing them. - i440, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Er, the book is about 1/300th that long.
XD - Futurepower, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1What we have: Free 10,000 pages to help you migrate to Linux. After three months of dedicated effort, you will be ready for the next 10,000 pages. Open source software is not free, because the manuals are so poorly written, and the user interfaces, which are often 90% of the work in a finished program, are not finished. It's just a different kind of payment: your time and aggravation.
What we need: Free program that migrates everything automatically to Linux. - abuser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Or perhaps you just need to relax and stick with whatever you have now.
Many Linux fans are too bored and the variety of distros, the constant ugprades, releases and fixes provide a great way of killing time. - Salmonized, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Agreed....unless i was forced to read then i'd do it...Why????
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0You mean it only takes reaing through 376 pages to get less functionality and no one iota more security as long as you take VERY basic precautions with Windows! Wow! Sign me up!
- kuriharu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Does anyone remember the Mac commercials in the 80's where they showed stacks of books for learning the PC and then they showed a small manual for learning the Mac? If users need 300+ pages to switch to Linux, I think they're gonna stay pat with Windows.
Unless you're in a corporation putting together a proposal for an entire department, why read even half that much? - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0blah blah blah who needs something of that size anyways unless your a noob.
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