Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed May 28 12:08:33 CDT 2014
On the weekend, I remoted into an office that I had previously replaced half their computers with Ubuntu. This time we replaced the remaining XP boxes, nine plus two laptops with the latest LTS Ubuntu 14.04 release...a piece of cake to say the least. It only took about three hours...considering that a full system backup was done first. It has been about four years since the first replacements and the one thing they have noticed is that Linux boxes never crash or suffer from malware attacks. For some speciality software they are still using virtual drives or an emulator but even those are gradually being replaced with native equivalent products. (The young lady that is running the office is quite brilliant and is now converted to a total Linux fanatic. :-)) For the office systems that is still running XP clients, in virtual mode, this is great news. Thanks for posting. I will pass it along. :-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 1:39:23 AM Subject: [dba-Tech] Continuous XP support This from slashdot... "A registry workaround<http://www.zdnet.com/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp-7000029851/>, which tricks Windows Update into thinking you are running Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, allows you to get free security updates<http://www.winbeta.org/news/registry-hack-lets-you-get-free-security-updates-windows-xp-until-2019> until 2019. All you need is a simple 32bit or 64bit registry entry in order to make this work. POSReady 2009 is slated to receive security updates for another five years. Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on April 8th of 2014." I don't use XP any more, but a few of my old clients do, and perhaps also a few of yours, so this may be of interest. -- Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com