[More] Help with open source briefing
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Mon Dec 16 09:21:42 EST 2002
Mark Purcell wrote:
>[Brief] looks fairly good. But quite heavily focused on the programming/
>heavy (server) end of town. Need to mention some of the excellent desktop work;
>GNOME/ KDE as well as the 'office' type applications such as OpenOffice,
>Abiword, KWord.
>
Perhaps consider breaking up the Open Source examples page into sections:
- Operating Systems and Administration
(eg: Linux, *BSD, lsof, top)
- Network Services and Diagnostics
(eg: Samba, Apache, ping, BIND)
- Application Development
(eg: Perl, Java, gcc, patch)
- Databases
(eg: MySQL, Postgres)
- Desktop Environment
(eg: Gnome, WindowMaker, AfterStep, gzip, Gabber)
On the "initiatives" page, indicate what might make up a least-impact
migration route (this is just my suggestion):
- Start with low-level services such as DNS - these are easily replaced
with minimal impact since users never interact with them directly
- Firewalls
- Web servers
- Print servers
- File servers
Then when the entire infrastructure is migrated to non-rental software,
the desktops can be migrated by staff who have become skilled and
knowledgable through the preceeding stages of migration.
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