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Re:Ancient Linux servers: The blighted slum houses of the In... by rprospero on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:36PM (#7444756)
As someone stuck supporting a Windows XP server, I know we lost the war. We raised a big white flag and rolled out a welcome mat for our new overlords. Still waiting for someone to show up, though.

(To break the metaphor, our server is hooked up to a PCI-X card which runs a radiation sensor. The drivers for the card will not run under anything after XP. The vendor has discussed possibly considering looking into designing a new card that would might run under Vista, but that's probably five years down the road.)

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Re:Ancient Linux servers: The blighted slum houses of the In... by derekp7 on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:50PM (#7444827)
Sounds like you need a new vendor? As an alternative, could you run XP in a minimum VM, which has that particular PCI card's address passed directly to the VM? Then make sure that there is no other way into the XP VM (i.e., don't run any other apps on it, and keep it only on the host-only network).
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Re:Ancient Linux servers: The blighted slum houses of the In... by keithpeter on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:54PM (#7444854)
XP Embedded? Still has support.
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Re:Ancient Linux servers: The blighted slum houses of the In... by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:22PM (#7444999)
Not for long. XPe is already at EOL. Support ends in 2016 and license availability ends in 2017.

Our products using XP Embedded are expected to still be in the field well past 2020. We are already making plans to transition to Windows 8 simply because it will soon be impossible to buy XPe licenses.

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