Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit: Your Windows to Linux Extreme Makeover

This book will warm the hearts of linux fans. It describes in gory detail how to migrate your computer from a Microsoft operating system to linux. Thoughtfully, the authors also included a CD stuffed with sundry scripts to ease the pain of migration. The book presupposes that you are familiar with running a Microsoft box. But less so about linux. So to assuage your concerns, there is careful attention paid to describing what a Microsoft utility or task maps to, under linux.A strength of the book is its ticklists of what to do when migrating from a Microsoft utility to its linux analog. Like when moving from IIS to Apache server, one item in this list is to rename Default.htm to index.html. Each item is usually simple to do and the list focuses your attention on what is vital.The book also shows that in the linux world, you generally have a greater variety of open source Intrusion Detection Security tools. Some of these also exist for Microsoft platforms. But typically a more limited selection.

The subtle attacks on Microsoft products throughout the book (particularly at the beginning) was distracting.If you're a Windows fan, you won't like this book; if you're a Linux fan, you'll love it. If you can appreciate the merits of both, it will probably just annoy you.