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  • Zaine Ridling - Making the switch: My journey from Windows to Linux >> Part-01: My journey from Windows to Linux >> Part-02: Which Linux distro to choose? >> Part-03: First impressions and first problems after installation >> Part-04: The "User Guide" as life raft, more n00b problems - Part-05: Ten Great Ideas of GNU/Linux - Part-06: Software Management is not that different
     
  • APC Magazine's definitive dual-booting guide: Linux, Vista and XP step-by-step
     How to dual-boot XP and Vista (with XP installed first) - How to dual-boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) - How to dual-boot Linux and XP (with Linux installed first) - How to dual-boot XP and Linux (with XP installed first) - How to dual-boot Vista and Linux (with Linux installed first) - boot Vista and Linux (with Vista installed first) - Preparing for dual-booting by doing an image-based backup - Why Vista's such a pain to dual-boot - How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana
     
  • CIO Magazine online >> Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X - Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X: CIO John Halamka Tests SUSE - Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X: CIO John Halamka Tests Ubuntu
     
  • Linux Client Migration Cookbook, Version 2 -- A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux - the goal of this IBM Redbook is "to provide a technical planning reference for IT organizations large or small that are now considering a migration to Linux-based personal computers. ... the overall focus of the content in this book is to walk the reader through some of the important considerations and planning issues you could encounter during a migration project. Within the context of a pre-existing Microsoft Windows-based environment, we attempt to present a more holistic, end-to-end view of the technical challenges and methods necessary to complete a successful migration to Linux-based clients."

  • OpenReports - "a flexible open source web reporting solution that allows users to generate dynamic reports in a browser."
    • It is based on JasperReports, a full featured open source reporting engine that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files.
       
  • freedesktop.org - "open source / open discussion software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops. The most famous X desktops are GNOME and KDE, but developers working on any Linux/UNIX GUI technology are welcome to participate."
     
  • The Xiph.Org Foundation - "a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.
     
  • Annodex.net - Open standards for annotating and indexing networked media ... The Annodex technology will create a Continuous Media Web (CMWeb): a massively multi-user, distributed hypermedia environment that works in both streaming and disk contexts. Annodex is an open standards based technology that extends the World Wide Web's hyperlinking, searching, and compositing infrastructure to time-continuous data, enabling video surfing, searching for clips of audio and video files using ordinary Web search engines, and on-the-fly composition of a video on a Web server from previously annodexed clips.
     
  • ConsortiumInfo.org - a "comprehensive source of information on the Internet regarding standards, standard setting, and open source software, and on the role that these essential tools play in business and society.
     
  • OpenVZ - an Operating System-level server virtualization solution, built on Linux. OpenVZ creates isolated, secure virtual private servers (VPSs) or virtual environments on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VPSs can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. (OpenVZ is a subset of Virtuozzo - a commercial virtualization solution offered by SWsoft.)
     
  • The Linux Desktop Distribution of the Future -- some thoughts into how a future Linux Desktop might work:
  • Is Open Source Really a Development Model? - "If someone offered to sell you a new car without a warranty (so feel free to tinker at will) for free in hopes to make their money maintaining the car, what would you know about the design of the car? ... What is important is to remember that you can't tell anything about software from how it's licensed.  ... You know nothing more about how well it performs, how closely it matches your requirements, how secure it is or frankly even what it will cost you to use it after you take everything into account."
     
  • Linux, outside the (x86) box - What is it about Linux that makes it so attractive for non-x86 platforms? ... Linux has become an attractive option for non-x86 platforms. The author examines the reasons for this, including the fact that Linux on non-x86 enables affordable, easy-to-do virtualization; provides for better reliability, power consumption, and extended memory support; covers the lower and upper ranges of machines, giving users options outside of the middle range; revitalizes older hardware; and drives innovation.
     
  • The Plex86 x86 Virtual Machine Project - "a very lightweight Virtual Machine (VM) for running Linux/x86 ... Eexecutes x86 code as-is but inside a virtualization container ... Linux requires extremely few modifications to make it execute within the plex86 VM, and can be configured easily to trim out unnecessary IO hardware and CPU support which would otherwise require a heavy VM."
     
  • Palamida - Intellectual Property risk management and compliance (to help mitigate the business and legal risks associated with third party component-based software development). ... "Putting someone else's code in your IP base can also leave you exposed if related licensing obligations go unaddressed. Off-shoring and global development teams make this even tougher to control."
    • Palamida IP Amplifier - automatically detects, manages and reports on the third party, commercial and open source components that may exist in a software code base.
       
  • Black Duck Software - "software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created, managed, and licensed." ... "building on code from third parties injects business and licensing issues into the software development process — issues that can put software assets at risk."
    • Black Duck protexIP suite - to "enable companies that develop software using third party and open source components to catch and resolve intellectual property issuesas they occur in development, instead of in the market or in court."
       
  • The Open Group -- a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
    • The Jericho Forum - an international forum of IT customer and vendor organisations dedicated to the development of open standards to enable secure, boundaryless information flows across organisations.
       
  • Proprietary vs. Standard Solutions - Not Always a Clear Choice - is the standard approach always better, and proprietary approach always bad? The author finds this attitude "somewhat foolish and dangerous, for a variety of reasons. ... There is a tradeoff in choosing a proprietary solution over a standard one, and it is my belief that the pro-standards group often oversells the "standards-based" approach, particularly in areas that are technically complex and in need of continuing innovation. No one would question that standards can be sources of tremendous value, particularly by refocusing R&D efforts on areas in greater need of innovation. But premature standards can cause tremendous strife in delivering quality software ..."

  • Novell
    • Linux University for Developers - "a collaborative initiative by developers, designed for developers to share their knowledge on how easy it is to create software on Linux. The content on this open community site is geared towards showing and doing using flash-based, interactive lessons, rather than articles or lengthy documentation."
    • Novell to Linux a saver - Moving the entire Novell organisation to Linux and open source began a year ago and immediately produced savings in proprietary licence fees of more than $US1 million ($A1.298 million) across the global operations. There were also significant gains brought about by Linux's "improved security and robust system management capabilities". ... "Within a year Novell has restructured its entire IT foundation by implementing its own products on top of Linux. It has moved core services, such as Web and firewall, in addition to print and file services, to Linux, has replaced MS Office with OpenOffice across 800 data centre servers and 5000 desktop systems and reports a highly positive migration experience."
       
  • Linux University - a free community based educational effort started by the Nashville Linux Users Group to promote more effective use of Linux and the software that runs on top of it.
     
  • Linux appeal grows as applications flourish - Open-source operating systems will not spread unless users have applications to run on them. As Linux matures and customers more seriously consider adopting it and its cousins, developers are constructing programs that increase the operating system's appeal.

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  • SourceLabs - Mission: "to free customers from software lock-in, while providing the integration, dependability and support required for real world systems."
    • CERT7 system testing - dependability tests in seven key certification areas
    • Slew of Fears Slows Open-Source Uptake - difficulty in acquiring technology; concerns about licensing constraints; and a lack of integration, testing and support all contribute to the slow adoption of open-source technology.
     
  • Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws - The Linux operating system has many times fewer bugs than typical commercial software, according to an upcoming report by code-analysis company Coverity.
  • e-fense (computer forensics specialists)
    • Helix - live CD for forensic esaminations -- "Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix is more than just a bootable live CD. You can still boot into a customized Linux environment that includes customized linux kernels, excellent hardware detection and many applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics. ... Helix has been modified very carefully to NOT touch the host computer in any way and it is forensically sound."
       
  • Open Source and Open Standards - It's not enough to just have the software code be open source -- the standards themselves need to be open, too.
  • The Free Standards Group
  • Open Source Middleware ... Breaking the rules with open source and Open source's next frontier - Open source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft. Individual open-source database and other applications are already popular. Now two open-source projects have launched efforts to assemble "stacks" of software applications that offer an open-source equivalent to commercial software from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems and others. ... Though it's too soon to tell just how much these new stacks will shake up the multibillion-dollar market for back-end software, it's clear there's a growing number of open-source alternatives to commercial software makers' most profitable products.

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