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  • If this is a duplicate, my apologies; I couldn't find a question that I felt was similar enough to mine and had answers that helped. I would be very satisfied with a link to a similar question with thorough answers. Commented May 29, 2013 at 23:49
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    As someone who is doing this the other way around at the moment (albeit on Mac instead of Linux): get yourself a virtual machine and just try stuff out. Python is an excellent cross-platform language, and most of the gotchas are Windows problems. Generally your code will Just Work on Linux more than it will on Windows. Commented May 29, 2013 at 23:54
  • I'd love to, but as I said, low budget, short time frame. Unless I stay up all night off the clock figuring everything out. ;) The hard part would be porting our automated processes. (Currently written in PowerShell. Really need to change that.) Commented May 30, 2013 at 0:05