migrating from MS to *nix

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Craig

(No, not another rant/flame/troll/etc...)

Wondering if anyone knew of a freeware (or open source) alternative to
Versora Progression Desktop. In a nutshell, this proggy transfers
settings and user data from a WinOS to a *nix desktop. Full description
and a review are below.

tia,
Craig

"Progression Desktop allows you to transfer files and settings from
Windows desktops to Linux desktops in an automated fashion. Desktop
"personalities" and data are quickly moved across operating systems and
applications to ensure a seamless transition to Linux.

Progression Desktop moves critical data, application settings, network
shares, desktop settings, directory structures and more in a predictable
and repeatable fashion.

Migrate Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express to Novell Evolution,
KMail, Mozilla or Thunderbird, Microsoft Internet Explorer to Mozilla,
Firefox or Konqueror, Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and more."

product url: http://www.versora.com/products/progression_desktop.php
review url: http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/218/1/
 
(No, not another rant/flame/troll/etc...)

Wondering if anyone knew of a freeware (or open source) alternative to
Versora Progression Desktop. In a nutshell, this proggy transfers
settings and user data from a WinOS to a *nix desktop. Full description
and a review are below.
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Resolvo has a freeware feature-limited version of Moveover (it's
supposedly open source as well, but their sourceforge file repository is
empty):

http://www.resolvo.com/products/moveover/freeware.htm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmoveover/
 
CharlieDontSurf said:
Resolvo has a freeware feature-limited version of Moveover (it's
supposedly open source as well, but their sourceforge file repository is
empty):

http://www.resolvo.com/products/moveover/freeware.htm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmoveover/
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Thanks for the pointer Charlie;

Yea, no source, no binaries, nothing. If anyone else comes across such
a program (actually, it'd be two: one for the win client, one for the
linux client) please post!

tia,
Craig
 
Craig said:
CharlieDontSurf said:
Two different apps. . .

http://openmoveover.sourceforge.net/

<q>
Differences between OpenMoveOver and MoveOver:

OpenMoveOver consists only of Linux codes. The intention is to allow the
community to build support for community Linux distributions.

MoveOver consists of a Windows component and a Linux component. It
provides a end-to-end solution for Windows to Linux desktop migration.

Thanks for the pointer Charlie;

Yea, no source, no binaries, nothing. If anyone else comes across such
a program (actually, it'd be two: one for the win client, one for the
linux client) please post!
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looks like just one is needed - there's a description of the process here:

http://www.orangecrate.com/article.php?sid=1011

<q>
There have been no major Desktop Migration Tools in the market today to
give people the ability to migrate their desktop settings from a Windows
™ based desktop computing environment to a Linux desktop, at least until
now. Now there is one such tool available from Resolvo Systems out of
Singapore, a Sun iForce ™ and Novell Partner being made available as
freeware for Fedora Core users and individuals who wish to migrate their
current Windows environment to a more robust Linux alternative instead.

In order to utilize the tool, you will have to register and download the
freeware edition from the Resolvo site, as there is no packaged delivery
available for shipment. This is done to lower the overall delivery cost
of the software to end-users. End-users can download the freeware
edition with a limited feature set or purchase the standard edition for
a mere $20.00 (USD) with a more complete feature set. For the purposes
of this test and review, I downloaded the freeware edition, to test the
migration of settings from a Windows desktop to a new user on my SUSE
Linux system. The freeware edition is actuall designed for Fedora Core
users, but will work on SUSE Linux for those not needing the advanced
feature set of the standard edition.

To begin, MoveOver needs to be installed in your Windows environment.
After it is setup, you may be required to reboot your Windows PC (it is
still Windows after all), but you may then return and run the MoveOver
Wizard for creating a backup of your environment:

<snip remainder of article>

</q>

Note: Registerware to the max. . .

Susan
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Two different apps. . .
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Yeah, I could've written that better. Now it reads to *me* like I was
referring to a single app :)

Thanks for the clarifying followup Susan, much appreciated.
 
Susan said:
Two different apps. . .

http://openmoveover.sourceforge.net/

<q>
Differences between OpenMoveOver and MoveOver:

OpenMoveOver consists only of Linux codes. The intention is to allow the
community to build support for community Linux distributions.

MoveOver consists of a Windows component and a Linux component. It
provides a end-to-end solution for Windows to Linux desktop migration.




looks like just one is needed - there's a description of the process here:

http://www.orangecrate.com/article.php?sid=1011
<write-up deleted>
<snip remainder of article>

Note: Registerware to the max. . .

Susan
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Openmoveover is a non-starter. No source, no binaries. Thanks for
turning up the free version of moveover, Susan. From reading the
company's doc, it seems the diff between the free and pay-for is that
the pay-for includes the win app that will pull & format all the data &
settings automagically into the linux script.

The free one ain't got that. On the bright side, getting all that info
off winderz manually isn't too big of a deal.

Besides the free version being registerware to the nth, the other
problem is that it only supports fedora core 2. I was hoping to run
this on a debian and, well, I wasn't thinking of learning to re-roll an
install.

If anyone hears of anything about windows-linux migration apps like this
please post!

Thanks again to Charlie & Susan,

-Craig
 
Openmoveover is a non-starter. No source, no binaries. Thanks for
turning up the free version of moveover, Susan. From reading the
company's doc, it seems the diff between the free and pay-for is that
the pay-for includes the win app that will pull & format all the data &
settings automagically into the linux script.

The free one ain't got that. On the bright side, getting all that info
off winderz manually isn't too big of a deal.
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According to the site Openmoveover is a version of Moveover that the
company is going to make partially open source in the future.
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I am not sure what migration you are taking about - is this migrating
windows desktop or windows applications onto Linux and/or UNix? I know
about migrating applications onto Linux/Unix from Windows - choices are

- Wine
- Bristol/S7's Wind/U
- Mainsoft's Mainwin
- S7's Linux-it
- S7 Portkey

Only Wine is freeware here but it won't help you complete 100% like the
rest

Manju
 
S7Solutions said:
I am not sure what migration you are taking about - is this migrating
windows desktop or windows applications onto Linux and/or UNix?
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Nope. The settings and/or data from some windows apps to some *nix
apps. For example all email, address books, attachments from Outlook to
Evolution. Thanks for the pointers though.

Craig
 
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