Hi Jim Craner, others,
A public pondering by someone contemplating the switch to Linux:
I use Itunes, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Open Office, Firefox. Itunes is
probably the only application on that list that isn't going to make the
switch. What could I use that would organize my 25+G of music files, and
keep them organized, the way Itunes does?
What kind of downtime am I looking at? Where can i find a checklist to
make sure my wireless card is going to work? I'm using a Dell Poweredge
server as a desktop, so I'm certain everything in it will work happily
with a 'nix, though some of my add-on toys might not.
What issues am I going to have? My primary concern is not having to
email my boss from a friend's place to say sorry, I've been down for a
day because I couldn't figure out _____ ( <--insert newbie sob story here).
I need to be able to share files with an OS X laptop. I know, I know,
Samba, says everyone happily. But how do I set up Samba? Any tutorials?
If you can point me towards even a crappy tutorial, I'll write and post
a better one. This applies to everything else, too.
For the benefit of other users (though these don't concern me personally
on a critical level yet), I'd also like to hear responses on how easy it
is to use a 'nix to share an internet connection, to act as a bridge /
DHCP router / NAT / SPI firewall, to access WEP and WAP protected
hotspots, to share files with XP, etc. I think it's more critical to
address how difficult something is than to express that these things are
possible with X distro or Y application...we can do all of these with
Windows as well. The emphasis needs to be on the doability (or
difficulty, as the case may be) of getting these things done.
I see a steady stream of how-to articles being published on one of my
sites as a direct result of this dialogue...I'm thinking this would be a
very useful resource for community technologists, emerging geeks, and
my fellow (and future) vistas.
D.
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Dave A. Chakrabarti
Projects Coordinator
CTCNet Chicago
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