Sweet
Well I took the plunge back in December and migrated to Linux. Gentoo linux to be specific because my friend spoke highly of it. I have been spending all of my time in it since and am picking up linux-centric things fast. Linux seemed the perfect OS due to my technical and dorky abilities.
Today I finally bothered to move my Thunderbird email over. I found a howto for sharing TB mail between linux and windows, with the mail staying on the windows drive. My problem was windows had to be on a FAT32 parition and mine was NTFS.
I successfully took the tips from the howto for what to edit on the linux side to point to the windoiws files but instead just did the edits and pointed them to the new location on linux.
I hope i didn’t muck anything up but just straight moving the profileover, editing the profile.ini file to use that one in linux. I did remove all extensions and themes in windows before I brought it all over to linux.
But everything looks and is working good so far. I do rememebr seeing something looking for migration info before on just moving the files with no extensions and leaving the .msf files (they’re index files and will automatically be recreated). Perhaps I should just nuke them and restart TB. I don’t know if these index files have specifics to the OS used. But I do have all my email that I had in Windows so I’ll assume all is well.
Now to reinstall my favorite theme and extensions.
Software wise I have found some good replacements.
Web – Firefox (same as in Windows)
Email – Thunderbird (obviously from the above text)
Newsgroups – Pan (formerly used Xnews in Win)
Video – mplayer (with a plugin to use in XMMS)
Audio/MP3 – XMSS (compariable to winamp/windows media player)
FTP – gFTP
IRC – XChat2
IM – Gaim (also used it in windows)
Office Suite – OpenOffice (switched to in Windows before going Linux)
Graphic Manipulation – The GIMP
CD/DVD Burning – k3b (just like Nero)
Bittorrent – Azureus (also used in Windows)
Ipod – trying GTKPOD. Used Anapod Explorer in Windows.
I’m sure there are others I missed but overall I’m very content with going to Linux 100%, All I need Windows for in the meantime is my Garmin GPS Mapsource mapping software, some geocaching programs ( i know there are linux alternatives, I haven’t looked into them yet), Tivo Desktop to transfer recorded shows, and a coulple of other utils. If I can run these program from within Linux with an emulator like Wine or other alternative then I’ll never have to boot into Windows again.
