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

[Brian Stretch]

This might be relevant:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/04/its-time-for-real-change.html
Chrome, optionally with VMWare or Citrix, does sound like an interesting option. ASUS has a neat little Chromebox that sold out on Amazon very quickly. If you can get by with rdesktop and your favorite Linux distro on existing hardware by all means do that, but if Google's going to bribe us...? 


On Thursday, April 10, 2014 7:54 AM, Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com> wrote:
 
One more question: if I ha a bunch of ubuntu boxes, all with a myAdmin account and a DSA key, can I do something like a 'myAdmin@* apt-get install requiredPackage'?

Just curious.

Chris




On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com> wrote:

THANKS FOR ALL THE THOUGHTS.
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>On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Josh Catana <jcatana at gmail.com> wrote:
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>I've always used rdesktop for my linux rdp client and never had issues.
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>>Just throwing that out there as an option.
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>>On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Check for proprietary apps that require Windows.  Not everything works on Wine.  Crossover Office may be better if they are using Access DBs on the clients.
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>>>Vinagre and Remmina are clients for RDP.
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>>>Excluding proprietary app problems on the clients, you'll probably have more problems with the hardware and users.
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>>>Old GPUs, especially integrated Intel (8xx series), SiS, and Via devices, have limited support (if any).  
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>>>Some old printers, scanners, and AiO multifunction devices don't work well.  DeskJet 7xx (software-based "Winprinters"), Lexmark 6xx (and Dell 7xx equivalents), Visioneer OneTouch scanners, are either useless or not worthing fighting with.  Many scanners will require firmware to be loaded at boot.
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>>>Internet content filtering is practically non-existent.  DansGuardian is barely maintained and won't support https/SSL/TLS filtering except by domain name and IP.
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>>>If the systems are going to access files directly on the server then you'll have to support SMB and logins.
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>>>If the clients are only using web browsers, thin-client hardware (and maybe a new server with LTSP) may be better.  Main advantage is lower energy consumption.
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>>>On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>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.  
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>>>>Has any one had a similar decision?
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>>>>Thanks.
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>>>>Chris Baty
>>>>IT Coordinator
>>>>Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
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