Migration: Not for the Faint of Heart is an editorial response to yesterday’s OSNews article on the failings of one person to successfully switch to Linux. As I said, I thought their expectations were too high, and that they failed to consider resources that could help. Posted at OSNews
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Red Hat Linux 9.0
Upgraded the intranet server from Red Hat 8.0 “Phoebe” to Red Hat 9.0 “Shrike” yesterday. The slow part was the downloads – each CD takes about an hour over broadband (okay, that’s not much to complain about!), but disk 5 had to be downloaded 5 times before I got a clean copy. (Hint: use MD5Sums.exe to test the .iso without going to all the hassle of burning a copy that Linux tells you isn’t valid. Hint2: then run “linux mediacheck” on startup to make sure you’ve got a good copy).
Installation was smooth as silk: boot from the CD, tell it to upgrade the install it finds, confirm you want to upgrade all packages, walk away. Drop by two more times to insert CD 2 and 3 and you are up and running. All settings transferred, all(most) all software running. I say almost, regretably, because it looks like changes to the threading model (a real performance improvement, I hear) break Wine. There’s a workaround already, and the Wine folks are hard at work at a solid fix. Details and a good review of RH 9.0 are available here and here:
http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html
http://www.winehq.com/index.php?issue=163#Making%20Wine%20Run%20With%20glibc%202.3
Too Much of a Good Thing?
OS News and Ars Technica both have postings pointing to a Freshmeat Editorial that argues there is too much Free Software. Too much of a good thing? Someone once tried to convince me there was such a thing as too much chocolate. I didn’t believe her, either.
Microsoft will Ease Access to Rival Browsers
Hmm. My IBM Thinkpad came configured with the “chooser” application in the Start menu. It must have been one of those helpful little things IBM did to customize my experience. I’ll have to thank them, as it has been very handy. Microsoft will Ease Access to Rival Browsers [OSNews]
PortalFox has an RSS Feed, too.
Unfortunately, I do not speak Spanish, but for those lucky folks who do, the Portal Fox web site has an RSS Feed for their FoxPro news and discussion site. Excellent!
Get to Know the Other Linux Distributions
A good summary of the top nine players, and references to others in the field: “Get to Know the “Other” Linux Distributions” from OSNews
Another Hot Visual FoxPro Community…
User 10,000 at PortalFox – Usuario Numero 10,000. It is our Pleasure to say that Didac Royo from Sant Cugat, Spain. It is our PortalFox Register User 10,000
Nos es grato informar que D’dac Royo de Sant Cugat, Espa–a, es el usuario 10.000 de PortalFox.
Thank you very much for all your support at 3 years of the creation of PortalFox Web Site
Muchas gracias a todos por permitirnos llegar a este nœmero a 3 (TRES) a–os de la creaci—n de PortalFox
PortalFox Team
Equipo de PortalFox [FoxCentral.Net]
SCO sues IBM for IP infringement
Doc Searls interviews some of the players and provides an explanation for what SCO is up to, in suing IBM, in this Linux Journal article.
Microsoft promises end to ‘DLL hell’
Legacy FoxPro Versions
An interesting survey on Ed Leafe’s site on the earliest version of FoxPro you use. A fairly small sample size so far, but please cast your vote. Courtesy Leafe.com