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Four Linux books that'll get you going (continued)
To be fair, I liked some of what I found in this book and some stuff made me nervous. On the plus side, the book has a lot of information about converting from various Windows server installations to Linux. If you've ever tried to migrate away from Windows, you know that this process can be difficult -- Windows doesn't like to give up its users!
This book is one of the more comprehensive on the topic, although you're certainly going to need more Linux resources than this one book. It does have a lot of useful comparison discussions and the DNS migration discussion was one of the best I've seen.
The book comes with a variety of helpful resources, including automated Linux migration scripts. To be fair, I didn't try the scripts -- I'm not at the point where I have the time to move another machine. But my experience has been that using automated scripts to move from one environment to another can be troublesome. I certainly won't say these automated scripts are bad -- but like all loaded weapons, use them with a great deal of caution.
This is very much a "roadmap" style book, in that it'll help you understand the issues far more than giving you the hands-on tools. I very much liked how the book compared Windows-based services to their Linux equivalent, but I've got to take a full point off because of the relatively sparse coverage of pre-migration backup and absolutely zero coverage of disk imaging. One of the more important steps before doing a major migration is to have a full backup of your server and, if at all possible, a completely restorable disk image. These issues were barely touched.
Overall, if you're moving from Windows to Linux and need some background information and hand-holding, I can heartily recommend this book. If you're in the middle of a migration and you're stuck on something, you'll want to look at other resources. We give Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit a solid 3 out of 5.
OUR RATING: 3 of 5
No matter which of these books you pick, you'll increase your understanding of Linux. If you're going to pick only one and you're actively working with Linux servers, I'd recommend Linux Cookbook by Carla Schroder as the best general-purpose resource.
Mick Moignard has been working and traveling with Lotus Notes since Release 2.0 in 1991. Mick is a DominoPower Senior Technical Editor and a Principal CLP with Unipart Expert Practices, a Lotus Advanced Partner in the UK. If you want to discuss anything to do with this article, or indeed anything else to do with Notes and Domino, contact Mick at Mick_Moignard@unipart.co.uk. Unipart Expert Practices will also happily discuss any opportunities you may have with any Notes and Domino application development or infrastructure projects you need help with. Unipart Expert Practices can be found at http://www.unipartep.com.
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