Now that you made the necessary preparation to migrate from Windows to Linux in Part I, you are ready to complete the move. THG offers a step-by-step Linux installation how-to, complete with screenshots and videos, to guide you on your path to Windows independence.
Migrating From Windows To Linux: Part 2
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Surely, there are certain parts of it I’d done differently, but it’s a great resource for people confused by starting up linux…
I remember, when I got linux, my computer was old, so I unchecked both GNOME and KDE when installing. After booting up, I am presented with TWM and an expression on my face saying “now what?”
This how-to was probably what I would have needed.
Their explanation of compiling is rather amusing…
“In no time, you will be a master compiler.”
Yeah! I AM a freakin’ master compiler!
(Is that what MC stands for in hip-hop?)
I like THG and all, but I personally think it was wrong for them to show the RH installer. First, if they wanted to use Anaconda to show the install format, they should have shown FC, since showing RH gives a false impression that RH still supports the desktop, which it doesn’t directly. Also, they show the RH installer then everything else was on SUSE (and the 9.1 beta at that) so why not just show the SUSE installer?
Also, all the videos were of RH. This makes no sense as we have a picture of a SUSE desktop then an explanation of something, then a video that showes off something completely different than what we have just read and saw.
For a lot of people who would switch to Linux, using this tutorial, they are going to go by exactly how the videos show things being done. They are most likely going to use the distribution shown because they know that what they are shown will work when they try it. This is not bad per se, but when you use an out-dated un-supported distribution it is detrimental to the community. I would rather have had them pick a current distro.
</rant>
Here is an excerpt from the article…
“All Linux distributions have similar installation procedures, but they look very different from each other. We will run through an entire installation of Redhat Linux 9. Don’t worry if the installation screens are vastly different than what you see here, as the concepts are the same. All installs have these steps”
That answers your rant.
In addition, the videos were made with VMWARE. Fedora core 1 crashes inside of VMWARE. Recently a fix was found, but too late for the article.
Yeah! I AM a freakin’ master compiler!
(Is that what MC stands for in hip-hop?)
Master of Ceremonies. Same thing though 😉
Was meant to be “@MC Ziggamon”
Heh, MC Zeke’s cool though too
The section on video playback was especially week. More importantly than how to install the video codecs is how to get them working so that videos play correctly in whatever web browser you’re using. (Note – this quesiton is rhetorical and not meant to be answered here, just pointing out oversights in the article.)
Personally, I don’t relish the thought of getting this crap working correctly in Linux. It’s not too hard in Xandros, but that’s only because the Crossover Plugin thing is included.
Its also a piece of cake in Gentoo. You emerge mplayer then emerge the plugin. If your use flags are set right, thats all you need to do to play nearly any video right in mozilla! Including quicktime and windows media.
I’m looking for some information on a Linux to Windows migrations. Our data centers have long, unexplicable outages since switching to Redhat Advanced Server and frankly, we’re tired. Sorry for venting, but I can’t believe the nerve of Redhat to charge so much for support licenses, and then invalidate our support just because we recompiled the kernel to support Nvidia video cards. The nerve!
And after a month or 2 you will be back using Windows…
And after a month or 2 you will be back using Windows…
trolling I see. If your gonna post something at least post somthing constructive!
I’m looking for some information on a Linux to Windows migrations. Our data centers have long, unexplicable outages since switching to Redhat Advanced Server and frankly, we’re tired. Sorry for venting, but I can’t believe the nerve of Redhat to charge so much for support licenses, and then invalidate our support just because we recompiled the kernel to support Nvidia video cards. The nerve!
Yes because on every server I run, I must be able to squeeze out extra frames on Quake 3 myself, else it just doesn’t feel like a real server.
Ok enough of the sarcasm, why even have X on a server?
>and then invalidate our support just because we recompiled
>the kernel to support Nvidia video cards. The nerve!
you do NOT need to recompile the kernel to get 3D acceleration on your nVidia card. The only thing that is compilled when installing the nVidia driver is a small interface between nVidia’s binary driver and your kernel.
The kernel itself stays untouched.
btw. what is a ‘datacenter’? aren’t there just servers?
So what do you need 3D acceleration for?
*ahem*
“Sorry for venting, but I can’t believe the nerve of Redhat to charge so much for support licenses, and then invalidate our support just because we recompiled the kernel to support Nvidia video cards. The nerve!”
The NVidia driver taints the kernel with a proprietary driver. The driver isn’t opensource, the glue between the driver and the kernel IS oepnsource. RedHat cannot support software they cannot know how it works (The NVidia binary driver.)
Buy a good card, from a company who actually are supported by an open-source driver. Like a Matrox.
Your support license isn’t terminated either, it is just that this is not supported. For obvious reasons.
I won’t take one step forwards to Linux till Adobe release a version of Photoshop, Illustrator software for Linux, or Freehand or 3D Max, or itunes or paltalk or ….
and no i’m not talking bout emulationg those software on Linux, they are all already very resource consuming themselves not any loss for an emu
c u there when those come to linux
Many 5 years from now. Gnome and the distros themselves have to make things a lot easier for Windows users who don’t know BASH shell.
I install Windows clicking “Next” in one hour. I install Gentoo with bash language + Gentoo specific language in 3 days.
Many years of intensive work still to come before the average user who bought his computer and his windows license switches to a new OS without the M$ toys he has on Windows, the sweet smileys of Messenger vs the dull GAIM smileys, and so forth. People love Micro$oft, Office and Messenger. Only us geeks don’t like Microsoft.
That’s life.
why does the linux community need muppets to move from windows?