migration

Electronics Weekly: "Linux has gained a firm position in the embedded market. This raises the question of whether it is worth developing new products with Linux and replacing an existing operating system with Linux.

There is effort and risk in any migration of an operating system, and the technical difficulties and analysis and planning for migration to embedded Linux require consideration and time."

10 Things: "If you’re thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it — but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open.

He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step."

On the ThinkPHP blog they mention the upcoming International PHP Conference happening October 27th through 31st and the Early Bird pricing for it that ends September 30th.

Spread Fedora: "Why should I migrate, I am satisfied from my operating system now. Could I lose data on my computer?

Is it possible just to see that thing and if I like it I would give it a try?"

The release synchronicity plan was accepted, and therefore Midgard will be switching from SVN to git, and the concept of feature branches.

With feature branches the idea is that each feature or bug fix is being developed in its own branch, and only landed to trunk (master in git terminology) when ready.

This keeps the trunk clean and easy to test.

With PHP4 out of the way, it's time to make way for PHP5.

To get the ball rolling, Gennady Feldman has posted some links to PHP5 resources that can get you on your way.

On the Debuggable blog, Felix Geisendorfer has posted some code (thought up by Marc Grabaniski) to go through Google and find the pages that they have indexed for your site.

Their goal is to check and see if the migration of a site was successful.

ZDNet UK: "In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source migration programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux distribution..."

McPherson: "Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with the threat of cloud computing.

The threat? I told her that virtually all of the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft's) are built on Linux..."