[ale] End of XP

[jslozier at gmail.com (Jay Lozier)]

Greg

Zorin is good replacement especially with Wine and PlayOnLinux 
installed. It is Ubuntu based so it has plenty of packages in the 
repository.

An alternate is Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop. It seems to be 
fairly close to Windows XP/7 that most Windows users can easily make the 
transition.

I do not if the accounting software will run well with Wine but I would 
try it. If it does not, the commercial version of Wine (Crossover from 
CodeWeavers) might do better. Even if they had to purchase a copy of the 
commercial version for $60.00 it will be cheaper overall. I did not find 
Business Vision listed on CodeWeavers.

Jay
On 03/21/2014 12:29 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> OK, so M$ puts a steak in the heart of XP next month.
>
> Unfortunately, my office and most of our customers are still running 
> Win XP, through Win 7 downgrade option.
>
> So, I am looking at options. I saw an article on Zorin OS the other 
> day as a look alike and pretty much work alike replacement for XP with 
> Wine and PlayOnLinux built in. Maybe I could use this to "wean" the 
> boss off of Windows.
>
> No need to flame on M$, I just looking for suggestions on a safe/easy 
> transition out the Windows world that can run on 5 year old hardware. 
> Any other suggestions for a platform move that could still run Windows 
> apps (mostly Business Vision accounting software) under Linux, 
> hopefully with minimal disruption?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Greg Clifton
>

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