Road Map to Linux

Lalit M Joshi Astt. System Admin Sanjeev Kumar System Executive

Road Map to Linux

Step1: Determine which applications are critical.
Application Name License Type Operating System Supported Windows MS Office 2003 Proprietary, Standalone Linux Processor: Intel PIII (233MHz) Memory: 128MB disk space: 400MB Windows: Intel 1.3 GHz processor or equivalent Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2; Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit) 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 335MB of available hard disk space (additional space required for installation) Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.0 with Service Pack 1, 7.0 or 8.0; Firefox 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6 Linux: 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP2 or Ubuntu 7.10 GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 150MB of available hard-disk space (additional 75MB required for all supported font packs) GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or later Firefox 2.x or 3.0 OpenLDAP and CUPS libraries Minimum Hardware Requirement Remarks

Adobe Reader

Freeware

Application Name

License Type

Operating System Supported Windows Linux

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Remarks

Matlab

Proprietary, Serverbased

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Windows XP x64 Edition Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or R2 Windows 7 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.x Debian 5.x Processor: Any Intel or AMD x86 processor supporting SSE2 instruction set Diskspace: 1 GB for MATLAB only, 34 GB for a typical installation Memory: 1024 MB (At least 2048 MB recommended) Windows: Microsoft Windows XP (Professional, 32-bit) or Vista (Home, Business, 32- or 64-bit), Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)* *Windows 2000 is not a supported platform. Web browser: Internet Explorer 7 or 8 Linux: Any Linux OS that meets the following requirements (32-bit only): Kernel 2.6.3 glibc 2.8 libstdc++5 XFree86-4.7 Web browser: Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.x Processor:

SPSS

Proprietary, Standalone

Application Name

License Type

Operating System Supported Windows Linux

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Remarks

Intel or AMD x86 processor running at 1GHz or higher Memory: 1GB RAM or more recommended Minimum free drive space: 800MB Oracle 9i SCO Unix Proprietary, Serverbased Proprietary, Serverbased CPU Supports all uni- and multi-processor configurations compatible with Intel Multiprocessing Specification (MPS) version 1.1 or 1.4 Intel Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Celeron and Xeon AMD K5, K6, Duron, Athlon XP, Athlon MP Many Cyrix processors RAM 64 MB recommended for most system configurations 4 MB for customized systems 128 MB recommend for desktop systems Disk Space Minimum of 400MB for the Host System Minimum of 550MB for the Desktop System Minimum of 600MB for the Enterprise System (add 500MB for Internet Services Minimum of 15MB (30MB is preferred) for the boot filesystem (/stand) 1 to 1.5 times as much space for swap as there is RAM 17 MB per foreign language supported. Web browser based clients. UNIX Telnet Server

SAS 9.3

Proprietary, Serverbased

Windows: ServerOS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit Family Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Family

Application Name

License Type

Operating System Supported Windows Linux

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Remarks

Client OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, updated with Service Pack 2 Microsoft Windows Vista - Enterprise, Business, and Ultimate Editions Microsoft Windows XP Professional for x64 systems Microsoft Windows Vista for x64 systems - Enterprise, Business, and Ultimate Editions Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 and 11 WebBrowser: Firefox 3.6 Processor:Intel or Intel-compatible Pentium 4 or Xeon class processors Memory: 64 MB recommended. 8 MB additional recommended for each concurrent user Disk Space: 616MB Java (JDK) Freeware Windows XP: 64mb RAM Chrome 4.0,IE 6 SP1, IE 7 or IE 8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.6 Disk space: 98 MB Windows 7: 128mb RAM Chrome 4.0, IE 8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.6 Disk space : 98 MB Linux x86: Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5, 5.4 64mb RAM, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.6 58 MB Disk space Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 64mb RAM, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 (4.1-4.8) 64mb RAM, Firefox 2,Mozilla 1.4 Mozilla 1.7 SUSE 10 64mb RAM, Firefox 2.0.x SUSE 9 64mb RAM, Mozilla 1.4

Application Name

License Type

Operating System Supported Windows Linux

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Remarks

SLES 11 64mb RAM, Firefox 3.0.6, Firefox 3.0.8 Netbeans Freeware Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7 Professional: Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent Memory: 512 MB Disk space: 750 MB of free disk space Linux: Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent Memory: 512 MB Disk space: 650 MB of free disk space

Turbo C++ IDE

Freeware

IBM-compatible personal computer (PC), including the IBM PC-XT (eXtended Technology) and the IBM PC-AT (Advanced Technology) models. MS-DOS version 2.0 or greater 384K of the first 512K of random access memory (RAM) Turbo C can run with only one floppy disk drive. Windows 2008 R2 Server (32-bit only); Vista SP1 (32- and 64-bit) except Home Basic; Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) - Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate; Windows XP SP3. Note: Cadence SPB and OrCAD products do not support Windows XP 64-bit, Windows 7 Starter / Home Basic, or Windows Server 2003. Processors:Intel IA-32 compatible (includes Intel P4-EMT and AMD Opteron) 1.2 GHz minimum. Memory:1 GB physical memory Diskspace:10 GB. Virtual memory: should be at least double the available physical memory Memory:256 MB memory minimum, 1 GB recommended. Disk Space: For computational jobs, 4 GB scratch disk space minimum; 60 GB recommended, at 10000 RPM. Display: For Maestro stereo viewing, a monitor with a refresh rate of 100 Hz or

Orcad 16.5

Proprietary, Serverbased

Schrdinger Maestro

Proprietary, Serverbased

Application Name

License Type

Operating System Supported Windows Linux

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Remarks

more is recommended. Most LCD displays do not have a sufficiently high refresh rate; however some vendors now supply LCD displays with a refresh rate of 120 Hz. Larger cache sizes result in improved performance of most Schrdinger software. Processors: x86-compatible processor, such as a Pentium family processor (including Pentium-4 and Xeon), AMD K6, Athlon or Opteron. AutoCAD Proprietary, Standalone For 32-Bit AutoCAD 2012 Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium; Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium (SP2 or later); or Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later) For Windows Vista or Windows 7: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dualcore processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; for Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology 2 GB RAM 2 GB free disk space for installation 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later Microsoft Project 2010 Proprietary, Standalone Processor : 700-megahertz (MHz) or higher Hard disk : 2 gigabyte (GB) available disk space Operating system : Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit), Windows Vista with SP1 Memory : 512 megabytes (MB) RAM

SolidWorks

Proprietary,

RAM Minimum: 1GB RAM

Application Name

License Type

Operating System Supported Windows Linux

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Remarks

Serverbased

Recommended: 6GB RAM or more on Windows 7 x64 operating system Video A certified graphics card and driver (recommended) CPU Intel or AMD processors. eDrawings is supported on Apple Macintosh-based machines

Step2: Consider Equivalent Applications for Linux environment

OpenOffice or LibreOffice = MS office GIMP = Photoshop gcc, g++ = Turbo C++ Open Source Application OpenOffice Alternative to MS Office OS Linux Windows Java OpenOffice provides a great alternative to existing commercial office suites. It comes with word processor Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation (Impress), 1.5.x, required to use full drawing and graphing tool (Draw), tool for creating OpenOffice.org functionality that need equations and formulae (Math) and finally a database tool Java which also build reports and forms (Base). All Microsoft Windows components are multi-platform and multilingual. Development is sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7 256 Mbytes RAM (512 MB RAM recommended) At least 650 Mbytes available disk space for a default install (including a JRE) via download.After installation and deletion of temporary installation files, OpenOffice.org will use approximately 440 Mbytes disk space. GNU/Linux (Linux) Linux kernel version 2.4 or higher, glibc2 version 2.3.2 or higher (starting with OOo 3.3 glibc2 version 2.5 or higher is required) 256 Mbytes RAM (512 MB recommended) 400 Mbytes available disk space Minimum Hardware Requirements Remarks

Open Source Application

Alternative to

OS Linux Windows

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Remarks

LibreOffice

MS Office

Windows: Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher), XP, Vista, or Windows 7; Pentium-compatible PC (Pentium III, Athlon or more-recent system recommended); 256 Mb RAM (512 Mb RAM recommended); Up to 1.5 Gb available hard disk space; Linux: Linux kernel version 2.6.18 or higher; glibc2 version 2.5 or higher; gtk version 2.10.4 or higher; Pentium-compatible PC (Pentium III, Athlon or more-recent system recommended); 256Mb RAM (512Mb RAM recommended); Up to 1.55Gb available hard disk space; X Server with 1024x768 resolution (higher resolution recommended), with at least 256 colors; Gnome 2.16 or higher, with the gail 1.8.6 and at-spi 1.7 packages (required for support for assistive technology [AT] tools), or another compatible GUI (such as KDE, among others).

Evolution Mail

MS Outlook

Evolution is an e-mail client built from scratch to be an alternative to Outlook on Linux. Today it has evolved

Open Source Application

Alternative to

OS Linux Windows

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Remarks beyond that - and provides stable functionaly through typical e-mail features. But Evolution also has advanced features such as: Virus and spam filtering, calendar support, search folders and encryption using GnuPG. Evolution can also act as a Microsoft Exchange client or Novell GroupWise client. This project is backed by Novell.

Gcc, g++ GIMP

Turbo C++ Photoshop

Windows: Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista). RAM: 128 MB Linux: Debian (deb) Fedora 9 (RPM) Gentoo Portage Slackware openSUSE 11.0 (RPM) Ubuntu (deb) RAM: 128MB Probably the oldest and most well-known open source graphic application - GNU Image Manipulation Program or Gimp was started in 1995 and has since then grown to the status it has today. Gimp is a valid competitor to all of the commercial bitmap drawing programs on the market. Among its features you find: powerful painting tools, layers and channels support, multiple undo/redo, editable text layers. Gimp as a plug-in architecture and a scripting engine that allow easy extension of it's functionality. More than a 100 plug-ins and scripts are already available. Also Gimp imports files from Photoshop (psd) and can also read scalable vector graphics (svg) files. If you feel at home in Photoshop, but need an open source alternative - Gimpshop is the way to go. Gimpshop is a hack made on top of the original Gimp project which changes all menues, dialogs, etc., in order to make them look as much as their counterparts in Photoshop. This makes users who are already familiar with the layout of Photoshop feel right at home in this open source application. Please note that all features in Photoshop in not available in Gimpshop, since it is based on the Gimp project and it's feature set. Started as a fork of the Gimp project, the goal is to create a more professional graphical editing application aimed at the movie industry. One of the major differences from Gimp is that CinePaint support up to 32-bit colors. And in order to get 32-bits images into CinePaint it supports a

Gimpshop

Photoshop

CinePaint 0.23

Photoshop

Open Source Application

Alternative to

OS Linux Windows

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Remarks number of professional image formats such as: Cineon, DPX and OpenEXR. The latter of the formats has tools available under an open source license.

PSPP

SPSS

PSPP is an alternative to SPSS, a program used to analyze data. PSPP doesn't impose limits on the variables you use and you don't have to acquire different versions in order to access advanced functions. Like SPSS, PSPP can be used for non-parametric tests, descriptive statistics and more. It is a fast running package no matter how large or small the input data happens to be. You can use the graphical interface or, if you prefer, syntax commands. PSPP's data files and syntax are compatible with SPSS and it supports over a billion variables and cases. You can operate it with Open Office, Gnumeric and other open source software you may be using. Like SPSS, it's simple to import data from other sources such as text files or spreadsheets. You can also export files in portable, system and ASCII format. No matter what type of computer you have or which operating system you are using, PSPP is likely to be compatible. You have a choice of formats for your output and graphics including PDF, HTML and ASCII. PSPP also produces histograms and a variety of charts to make your results attractive and understandable for presentation.

Solaris 10

SCO Unix

Processor For Intel based Arch: x86_64-based processors (AMD64 or EM64T architecture Disk Space: 5 MB for the /var directory 10 MB for the /opt directory if you create mount points 2 GB for the /opt/tivoli/tsm directory if you

Open Source Application

Alternative to

OS Linux Windows

Minimum Hardware Requirements create mount points 200 MB for the /tmp directory 300 MB for the /usr directory 300 MB in the home directory Memory: At least 2 GB. A minimum of 4 GB for production servers. 8 GB is optimal.

Remarks

FreeCAD

AutoCAD, SolidWorks

FreeCAD is general purpose CAD (computer aided drawing) software that targets product design and mechanical engineering. It can be easily used for any engineering specialty, featuring tools that are modeled to function like SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Catia. Its main focus is dynamic simulation and analyzation. It has a GUI (graphical user interface) based on Qt framework and its 3D viewer allows quick rendering of 3D scenes. It is simple to use and easy to quickly figure out its special functions. QCad Community Edition is an open source edition of RibbonSoft's CAD system. QCad is a 2D CAD application that aims at being simple enough for anyone to use - even users with no previous CAD experience. Compared to the Professional edition the Community Edition has no scripting or poly-line support - also features are a few months behind. Features include layers, dxf files import and export, many flexible drawing tools and precise selection tools. BRL-CAD is an open source cad systems based around constructive solid geometry (csg) modeling. On top of all of it's modeling features, such as the interactive geometry editor, BRL-CAD offers parallel ray-tracing, path-tracing, image and signal processing tools. The ray-tracing process can even be distribution over a network of

QCAD community Edition

AutoCAD, SolidWorks

BRL-CAD

AutoCAD, SolidWorks

Open Source Application

Alternative to

OS Linux Windows

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Remarks computers. When starting a new model determining an accurate unit of measurement ensures that your models will always have the correct proportions compared to real world objects. CSG is a fascinating way to work with 3d modeling and allows you to quickly build rough models and can be finalized later with all required details.

Archimedes

AutoCAD, SolidWorks

Archimedes is a computer aided design (CAD) solution focusing on architectural design. While the current version of Archimedes may not be mature enough for all this project is very promising. It already has many of the most common and advance drawing features you will find in a commercial CAD solution. However, it's interoperability with other products is still lacking. On the other hand drawing can be exported in scalable vector graphics (SVG) format - allowing you to share finished drawings with a wide audience without requiring them to install the product. OpenProj is a new open source solution for project management. It's simple user interface is very similar to that of Microsoft Project. OpenProj even let's you import you existing Microsoft Project files directly, so that you can fast and easily migrate all of you project. Primavera files can also be imported. The project plan can be viewed as a gantt charts and it also supports network diagrams (PERT charts), WBS and RBS charts. Everything is controlled and updated based on your information and run through OpenProj's advanced scheduling engine - to provide a complete upto-date view of your project. OpenProj is professional project management on your desktop not matter which operating system you use Aiming to be a direct alternative to Microsoft Project Open Workbench provides project planning and scheduling together with resource management. Open Workbench even offers import of Microsoft Project files to make migration easier.

OpenProj 1.4

MS Project 2007

Open Workbench 1.1.6

MS Project 2007

Open Source Application GanttProject

Alternative to MS Project 2007

OS Linux Windows

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Remarks GanttProject is a project scheduling and management tool which also offers resource management. Even importing and exporting Microsoft Project files is supported.

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Step3: Choose Linux Graphical Desktop Environment, Distribution, Web browser.

Linux Distribution: Redhat Desktop Suse Linux Ubuntu Linux Mint etc Linux Graphical Desktop Environment. GNOME KDE XFCE LXDE Web Browsers. Firefox Konqueror Mozilla Google Chrome Linux Distribution Redhat Desktop Default Desktop Environment GNOME Default Web Browser Firefox Minimum Hardware Requirement Processor Pentium 200 MHz or better; 32 and 64 bit CPUs RAM 512 MB Drive space 1 GB Processors: Intel, AMD, Cyrix and VIA, Intel Pentium Pro or better processor, and is optimized for i686 and later processors. Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium Pro or better Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium Pro or better RAM for text-mode: 256 MiB RAM for graphical: 640 MiB Ubuntu Desktop GNOME Firefox Processor: 1 GHz x86 processor (Pentium 4 or better) RAM: 512 MiB of system memory (RAM)

Fedora

GNOME

Firefox

Linux Distribution

Default Desktop Environment

Default Web Browser

Minimum Hardware Requirement Disk Space: 5 GB of hard-drive space

openSUSE

KDE

Konqueror

Processor: Pentium* III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or higher or any AMD64 or Intel* EM64T processor recommended) Memory: 512 MB physical RAM (1 GB recommended) Hard disk: 3 GB available disk space (more recommended)

Linux Mint

GNOME

Firefox

Processor: 600 MHz x86 processor Memory: 512 MB of system memory (RAM) Disk Space: 5 GB of disk space Graphics: GA graphics card capable of 800x600 resolution

Step4: Hardware on which Linux desktop will run.

Also need to formulate a plan for the hardware on which Linux desktop will run. Plan to buy new hardware or to utilize what we already have? Can Linux work on the hardware you are currently using? One of the advantages of Linux is that it runs well on older hardware, performing better than Microsoft Windows in this respect. Newer hardware can present challenges with Linux because, to date, there is typically no support "out of the box." However, companies such as HP, IBM, and Dell are improving their support for Linux. Supported Hardware Vendors Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc. Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc. Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc. Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc. Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc.

Linux OS Distribution Redhat Desktop Fedora Ubuntu Linux Mint SUSE

Step 5: Testing of OS, Applications and various Hardware.

Step 6: Training Sessions for IT-Team

Step 7: Training Sessions for Users, Faculty and Students.

Step 8: Implementation and Deployment.