[WLUG] The End of XP an Opportunity for Linux?

[Jim Irrer]

On some older personal computers I've gone with
Xubuntu because of it's smaller memory footprint.
You still get the benefits of the Ubuntu community.

I've heard of RDP programs that allow users to
access Windows from Linux clients, but I've never
used them.

If all they do is RDP then it sounds like a good idea.
Get one working first and then duplicate that effort on
the rest.


Thanks,

- Jim

Jim Irrer     irrer at umich.edu       (734) 647-4409
University of Michigan Hospital Radiation Oncology
519 W. William St.             Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> Through ironic circumstances I've become the IT Coordinator of a
> moderately sized Ann Arbor non-profit.  Our backbone is a Windows 2008
> Server (lucky me) but our staff accesses it, via Remote Desktop, through a
> bunch of old XP machines.  Now that XP is no longer supported by Microsoft
> I'm seriously thinking about installing Kubuntu (because of it's similarity
> to Windows, low cost and resistance to viruses) on our old XP machines.
>
> Has any one had a similar decision?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris Baty
> IT Coordinator
> Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
>
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