Linux Roadmap

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Road Map to Linux

Lalit M Joshi

Astt. System Admin

Sanjeev KumarSystem Executive



Road Map to Linux

Step1: Determine which applications are critical.Application

Name

License Type Operating System

Supported

Minimum Hardware Requirement Remarks

Windows Linux

MS Office2003

Proprietary,Standalone

Processor: Intel PIII (233MHz)Memory: 128MBdisk space: 400MB

Adobe Reader Freeware 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 PCEdition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Vista® HomeBasic, 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; Firefox2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6Linux: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 allsupported font packs)• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or later • Firefox 2.x or 3.0• OpenLDAP and CUPS libraries



Application

Name


Supported


Windows Linux

Matlab Proprietary,Serverbased

OS:Windows XP Service Pack 3Windows XP x64 Edition Service Pack 2Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2Windows Vista Service Pack 2Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or R2Windows 7Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.xSUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.xDebian 5.x

Processor:Any Intel or AMD x86 processor supporting SSE2 instruction setDiskspace:1 GB for MATLAB only,3–4 GB for a typical installationMemory:1024 MB(At least 2048 MB recommended)

SPSS Proprietary,Standalone

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 7or 8Linux:Any Linux™ OS that meets the following requirements (32-bit only):• Kernel 2.6.3• glibc 2.8• libstdc++5• XFree86-4.7Web browser: Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.xProcessor:



Application

Name


Supported


Windows Linux

• Intel® or AMD x86 processor running at 1GHz or higher

• Memory: 1GB RAM or more recommended• Minimum free drive space: 800MB

Oracle 9i Proprietary,Serverbased

Web browser basedclients.

SCO Unix Proprietary,Serverbased

- - CPU

Supports all uni- and multi-processor configurations compatible with IntelMultiprocessing 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 MPMany Cyrix processors

RAM

64 MB recommended for most system configurations

4 MB for customized systems128 MB recommend for desktop systems

Disk Space

Minimum of 400MB for the Host SystemMinimum of 550MB for the Desktop System

Minimum of 600MB for the Enterprise System (add 500MB for Internet ServicesMinimum of 15MB (30MB is preferred) for the boot filesystem ( /stand )1 to 1.5 times as much space for swap as there is RAM17 MB per foreign language supported.

UNIX Telnet Server

SAS 9.3 Proprietary,Serverbased

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



Application

Name


Supported


Windows Linux

Client OS:

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, updated with Service Pack 2Microsoft® Windows® Vista - Enterprise, Business, and Ultimate EditionsMicrosoft® Windows® XP Professional for x64 systems Microsoft®Windows® Vista for x64 systems - Enterprise, Business, and Ultimate EditionsLinux:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 and 11WebBrowser: Firefox 3.6Processor:Intel or Intel-compatible Pentium 4 or Xeon class processorsMemory:64 MB recommended. 8 MB additional recommended for each concurrent user Disk Space: 616MB

Java (JDK) Freeware Windows XP:

64mb RAMChrome 4.0,IE 6 SP1, IE 7 or IE 8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.6Disk space: 98 MBWindows 7:

128mb RAM

Chrome 4.0, IE 8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.6Disk space : 98 MBLinux x86:

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5, 5.4 64mb RAM, Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x, or Firefox 3.658 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 3.6Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 (4.1-4.8)

64mb RAM, Firefox 2,Mozilla 1.4 Mozilla 1.7SUSE 10

64mb RAM, Firefox 2.0.xSUSE 9

64mb RAM, Mozilla 1.4



Application

Name


Supported


Windows Linux

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 equivalentMemory: 512 MBDisk space: 750 MB of free disk spaceLinux:Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalentMemory: 512 MBDisk space: 650 MB of free disk space

Turbo C++IDE

Freeware IBM-compatible personal computer (PC), including the IBM PC-XT (eXtendedTechnology) 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.

Orcad 16.5 Proprietary,Serverbased

Windows© 2008 R2 Server (32-bit only); Vista SP1 (32- and 64-bit) exceptHome Basic; Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) - Home Premium, Professional,Enterprise, and Ultimate; Windows XP SP3. Note: CadenceÂ® SPB andOrCADÂ® 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 memoryDiskspace:10 GB.Virtual memory: should be at least double the available physical memory

Schrödinger Maestro

Proprietary,Serverbased

Memory:256 MB memory minimum, 1 GB recommended.Disk Space: For computational jobs, 4 GB scratch disk space minimum; 60 GBrecommended, at 10000 RPM.Display: For Maestro stereo viewing, a monitor with a refresh rate of 100 Hz or



Application

Name


Supported


Windows Linux

more is recommended.

Most LCD displays do not have a sufficiently high refresh rate; however somevendors now supply LCD displays with a refresh rate of 120 Hz.Larger cache sizes result in improved performance of most Schrödinger 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® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; for Windows XP: IntelPentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2technology

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

MicrosoftProject 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), WindowsVista with SP1

Memory : 512 megabytes (MB) RAM

SolidWorks Proprietary, RAM Minimum: 1GB RAM



Application

Name


Supported


Windows Linux

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 AppleMacintosh®-based machines



Step2: Consider Equivalent Applications for Linux environmentOpenOffice or LibreOffice = MS officeGIMP = Photoshopgcc, g++ = Turbo C++

Open Source

Application

Alternative

to

OS Minimum Hardware Requirements Remarks

Linux Windows

OpenOffice MS Office Java

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)1.5.x, required to use fullOpenOffice.org functionality that needJava

Microsoft Windows

Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows XP, Windows 2003,Windows Vista, Windows 7

256 Mbytes RAM (512 MB RAMrecommended)

At least 650 Mbytes available disk space for a default install (including aJRE) via download.After installationand deletion of temporary installationfiles, OpenOffice.org will useapproximately 440 Mbytes disk space.

GNU/Linux (“Linux”)

Linux kernel version 2.4 or higher,glibc2 version 2.3.2 or higher (startingwith OOo 3.3 glibc2 version 2.5 or higher is required)

256 Mbytes RAM (512 MBrecommended)

400 Mbytes available disk space

OpenOffice provides a great alternative to existingcommercial office suites. It comes with word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation (Impress),drawing and graphing tool (Draw), tool for creatingequations and formulae (Math) and finally a database toolwhich also build reports and forms (Base). Allcomponents are multi-platform and multilingual.Development is sponsored by Sun Microsystems.



Open Source

Application

Alternative

to


Linux Windows

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 systemrecommended);

256 Mb RAM (512 Mb RAMrecommended);

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 systemrecommended);

256Mb RAM (512Mb RAMrecommended);

Up to 1.55Gb available hard disk space;

X Server with 1024x768 resolution

(higher resolution recommended), withat least 256 colors; Gnome 2.16 or higher, with the gail

1.8.6 and at-spi 1.7 packages (requiredfor support for assistive technology[AT] tools), or another compatible GUI(such as KDE, among others).

EvolutionMail

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



Open Source

Application

Alternative

to


Linux Windows

beyond that - and provides stable functionaly throughtypical e-mail features. But Evolution also has advancedfeatures 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++ Turbo C++

GIMP Photoshop Windows:

Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista).RAM: 128 MBLinux:

Debian (deb) Fedora 9 (RPM)

Gentoo Portage Slackware openSUSE 11.0 (RPM) Ubuntu (deb)

RAM: 128MB

Probably the oldest and most well-known open sourcegraphic application - GNU Image Manipulation Programor Gimp was started in 1995 and has since then grown tothe 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, editabletext layers. Gimp as a plug-in architecture and a scriptingengine that allow easy extension of it's functionality.More than a 100 plug-ins and scripts are alreadyavailable. Also Gimp imports files from Photoshop (psd)and can also read scalable vector graphics (svg) files.

Gimpshop Photoshop If you feel at home in Photoshop, but need an opensource 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 inPhotoshop. This makes users who are already familiar with the layout of Photoshop feel right at home in thisopen source application. Please note that all features inPhotoshop in not available in Gimpshop, since it is basedon the Gimp project and it's feature set.

CinePaint0.23

Photoshop Started as a fork of the Gimp project, the goal is to createa more professional graphical editing application aimed atthe movie industry. One of the major differences fromGimp is that CinePaint support up to 32-bit colors. And inorder to get 32-bits images into CinePaint it supports a



Open Source

Application

Alternative

to


Linux Windows

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

PSPP SPSS PSPP is an alternative to SPSS, a program used toanalyze data. PSPP doesn't impose limits on the variablesyou use and you don't have to acquire different versionsin order to access advanced functions. Like SPSS, PSPPcan be used for non-parametric tests, descriptive statisticsand more. It is a fast running package no matter howlarge or small the input data happens to be. You can usethe graphical interface or, if you prefer, syntaxcommands.PSPP's data files and syntax are compatible with SPSSand it supports over a billion variables and cases. You can

operate it with Open Office, Gnumeric and other opensource software you may be using. Like SPSS, it's simpleto import data from other sources such as text files or spreadsheets. You can also export files in portable, systemand ASCII format. No matter what type of computer youhave or which operating system you are using, PSPP islikely to be compatible.

You have a choice of formats for your output andgraphics 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 EM64TarchitectureDisk Space:

5 MB for the /var directory

10 MB for the /opt directory if you createmount points

2 GB for the /opt/tivoli/tsm directory if you



Open Source

Application

Alternative

to


Linux Windows

create mount points

200 MB for the /tmp directory

300 MB for the /usr directory300 MB in the home directory

Memory:At least 2 GB. A minimum of 4 GB for production servers. 8 GB is optimal.

FreeCAD AutoCAD,SolidWorks

FreeCAD is general purpose CAD (computer aideddrawing) software that targets product design andmechanical engineering. It can be easily used for anyengineering specialty, featuring tools that are modeled to

function like SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Catia. Its mainfocus is dynamic simulation and analyzation.It has a GUI (graphical user interface) based on Qtframework and its 3D viewer allows quick rendering of 3D scenes. It is simple to use and easy to quickly figureout its special functions.

QCADcommunity

Edition

AutoCAD,SolidWorks

QCad Community Edition is an open source edition of RibbonSoft's CAD system. QCad is a 2D CADapplication that aims at being simple enough for anyoneto use - even users with no previous CAD experience.Compared to the Professional edition the Community

Edition has no scripting or poly-line support - alsofeatures are a few months behind. Features include layers,dxf files import and export, many flexible drawing toolsand precise selection tools.

BRL-CAD AutoCAD,SolidWorks

BRL-CAD is an open source cad systems based aroundconstructive solid geometry (csg) modeling. On top of allof it's modeling features, such as the interactive geometryeditor, 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



Open Source

Application

Alternative

to


Linux Windows

computers. When starting a new model determining anaccurate unit of measurement ensures that your modelswill always have the correct proportions compared to real

world objects. CSG is a fascinating way to work with 3dmodeling and allows you to quickly build rough modelsand can be finalized later with all required details.

Archimedes AutoCAD,SolidWorks

Archimedes is a computer aided design (CAD) solutionfocusing on architectural design. While the currentversion of Archimedes may not be mature enough for all -this project is very promising. It already has many of themost common and advance drawing features you willfind in a commercial CAD solution. However, it'sinteroperability with other products is still lacking. On theother hand drawing can be exported in scalable vector

graphics (SVG) format - allowing you to share finisheddrawings with a wide audience without requiring them toinstall the product.

OpenProj 1.4 MS Project2007

OpenProj is a new open source solution for projectmanagement. It's simple user interface is very similar tothat of Microsoft Project. OpenProj even let's you importyou existing Microsoft Project files directly, so that youcan fast and easily migrate all of you project. Primaverafiles can also be imported.The project plan can be viewed as a gantt charts and italso supports network diagrams (PERT charts), WBS and

RBS charts. Everything is controlled and updated basedon your information and run through OpenProj'sadvanced scheduling engine - to provide a complete up-to-date view of your project. OpenProj is professional project management on your desktop not matter whichoperating system you use

OpenWorkbench

1.1.6

MS Project2007

Aiming to be a direct alternative to Microsoft Project -Open Workbench provides project planning andscheduling together with resource management. OpenWorkbench even offers import of Microsoft Project files -to make migration easier.



Open Source

Application

Alternative

to


Linux Windows

GanttProject MS Project2007

GanttProject is a project scheduling and management toolwhich also offers resource management. Even importingand exporting Microsoft Project files is supported.

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

Redhat DesktopSuse LinuxUbuntuLinux Mint … etc

Linux Graphical Desktop Environment.

GNOMEKDEXFCELXDE

Web Browsers.

FirefoxKonqueror MozillaGoogle Chrome

Linux Distribution Default Desktop Environment Default Web

Browser

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Redhat Desktop GNOME Firefox Processor Pentium 200 MHz or better; 32 and 64 bit CPUsRAM 512 MBDrive space 1 GB

Fedora GNOME Firefox 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 MiBRAM for graphical:

640 MiB

Ubuntu Desktop GNOME Firefox Processor: 1 GHz x86 processor (Pentium 4 or better)

RAM: 512 MiB of system memory (RAM)



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 2.4GHz 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.

Linux OS Distribution Supported Hardware Vendors

Redhat Desktop Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc.

Fedora Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc.

Ubuntu Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc.

Linux Mint Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc.

SUSE Acer, IBM,HP, Dell, etc.



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.

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