Back about 4 years ago, we were working with mega-publisher MCP on precisely this sort of thing, plans for a general HowTo Linux phrasebook guide for Windows programmers who had seen the light (or lucky enough to work for managers with good future-sense) and now must embark down the long road porting their prior O/S choice mistakes into a reliable open operating system. We couldn't find anyone willing and able to write our book back then, but it seems we were simply too far ahead of the curve ...

The wave of migration to open source in business has the potential to cause a tremendous porting traffic jam as developers move the ever-pervasive Windows application to the Linux platform. In this three-part series, get a mapping guide, complete with examples, to ease your transition from Windows to Linux.

Part one begins with inter-process communications, and oh boy are you Win-kernel people in for a treat!

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