Linux Client Migration Cookbook - Version 2

The 2nd version of IBM's Linux Client Migration Cookbook has just been published and is now available as a pdf download.

This free book includes some technical “how to”, but the overall focus of the content is to walk through the important considerations and planning issues you could encounter during a migration project of migrating Windows clients to Linux clients. Within the context of a pre-existing Microsoft Windows-based environment, a more holistic, end-to-end view of the technical challenges and methods necessary to complete a successful migration to Linux-based clients is presented.

This second version of the Linux Client Migration Cookbook builds on the content strategy that was started in the first version. The primary audience for this book is existing business IT environments that need to begin an evaluation of desktop Linux, or in a broader sense any organization whose strategy is to move toward greater adoption of open source software and open standards. For this version the authors have added a significant amount of new content, and have focused on some key areas, such as the following:

• Greater emphasis on illustrating the technical details of the Linux client operating system stack, and understanding how to best leverage those differences in a migration scenario from Microsoft Windows
• The tremendous amount of flexibility that Linux gives you to design custom client operating system images
• Deployment models: understanding how Linux's flexibility allows for new, innovative, and cost effective approaches to deploying and managing desktop operating systems
• In larger IT environments, the importance of automating capture and migration of end user's client-side personalization data

Download PDF - Linux Client Migration Cookbook, version 2 (5.8 MB)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Choosing Linux
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The case for migration

Part 2 Planning the pilot migration
Chapter 3. Organizational and human factors planning
Chapter 4. Technical planning
Chapter 5. Linux architecture & technical differences

Part 3 Performing the pilot migration
Chapter 6. Migration best practices
Chapter 7. Client deployment models
Chapter 8. Client migration scenario
Chapter 9. Integration how-tos

Part 4 Appendixes
Appendix A. Linux glossary for Windows users
Appendix B. Using enterprise management tools
Appendix C. Automating desktop migration - Versora Progression Desktop
Appendix D. Multi-station computing deep dive - Using Userful Desktop Multiplier
Appendix E. Client personalization
Appendix F. Desktop automation and scripting
Appendix G. Application porting