I am a savy Windows Server administrator looking to use Linux. I dont have time to read fat books of Linux especially when I want something done in a hurry. I installed SUSE 10.1. That was straight forward. The problem I have is trying to figure out some of the corresponding services and tools that you normally find in Control Panel/Administrative Tools of Windows.
It would be nice if there was a Windows Server to Linux wiki or FAQ or something that shows the corresponding tools to use. Preferably by distribution since it seems the GUI apps vary from distro to distro.
A suggestion would be to break it up by the same Start/Program/menus of Windows.
Just as an example:
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Desktop (my computer, my network, display changes)
Control Panel
Admin Tools (odbc setup, services, IIS, etc)
Add/Remove Programs
Networking
System
etc
IS (Firefox)
Accessories (All the same tools they have)
Office Apps (Openoffice of course)
SQL Server (mysql)
Windows Explorer (Konqueror? limitations?)
Winzip CAB files -> tar?
etc.....
It would help Windows Administrators migrating to Linux having this kind of documentation.
Now you are wondering why I wrote all this?
My current problem? How do I start and stop FTP under Suse. I am stumped because when I type ps -A I dont see it running even when I enable it in Yast. I seem to remember Red-Hat had a nice application that showed you all the services like Windows does and click to stop and start them. So I have 2 problems. How do I view/stop/start my running services and how do I setup the FTP server.
Thanks
