Just curious, why can't you do that in your lab? Those operating systems are the right price, that's for sure....
Jeff Dycus Library Specialist, Electronic Resources University of Kentucky William T. Young Library 500 S. Limestone Lexington, KY 40506-0456 (859) 218-0678 jeff.dy...@uky.edu -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:19 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL Smart, too bad we can't do that in our learning lab! Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: John Palmer<mailto:writing2...@gmail.com> Sent: 3/2/2014 12:14 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL We are migrating our oldest machines (Pentium, 64-128Mb, 30gb hdd) to TinyLinux. Our Pentium and Celeron machines with 256 Mb, 100gb machines are going to Xubuntu. Anything below 4GB RAM is going to Ubuntu 12.04 4GB+ goes to Windows 7. On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Justin Coyne <jus...@curationexperts.com> wrote: > They won't be a security risk on April 8th, but the first time that MS > publishes security patches after that date for newer version, security > researchers will examine the patches. Doing so will give them an idea > about how to exploit the problem the patch was for. They will then > try to run the exploit on XP and see if it is vulnerable. Eventually > they will find an exploit that works against XP. > > Even if you have a AV, people can exploit your machine without using a > virus. Is that a risk you want to accept? > > -Justin > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jimm Wetherbee > <j...@wingate.edu<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those > > machines are instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th. > > We will not be > doing > > anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are too > > old to run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them. > > > > --jimm > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Riley Childs > > <rchi...@cucawarriors.com<javascript:;> > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP > > > End-of-Life (if anything at all :( > > > > > > > > > Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows > > > 8 > (we > > > ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but > > > that's > > another > > > story), and when April 7th comes around: throw anything we can't > > > use > away > > > (sigh). > > > > > > Riley Childs > > > Student > > > Asst. Head of IT Services > > > Charlotte United Christian Academy > > > (704) 497-2086 > > > RileyChilds.net > > > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > >
