It's easy to migrate from xp to Lubuntu for normal office use. Trust me. For CNC, assuming you are talking about computer numerical control, I understand your doubts. Anyway many CNC controlled machine use a set of standard instructions. I worked with different lasercut from Mazak and other kind of CNC machines some years ago and the majority were based on G-Code language.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code And if you like there are CNC solution based on Ubuntu http://www.linuxcnc.org Have a look on it. If you are not talking about this kind of CNC... Well please explain a little bit more deeply your problem. F. Em 07/07/2013 15:30, "Pete" <psmo...@live.com> escreveu: > Hi, > > It's great that we are thinking of offering a better experience to XP > users, but let us not forget about the millions of small and medium sized > businesses out there who will want to 'carry on as they are' with minimal > cost in terms of hard / soft ware, and minimal retraining of their staff. > Take my old company as an example employing 15 - 20 people on one site, > have used XP since it's inception and is now being told by MS that they > need to upgrade their six or seven machines to make them Win7 compliant. If > we can offer something that enables them to carry on without that expense > in these difficult times I am sure that would be a persuasive argument! > > Note that to this end I am in the process of clearing out my old netbook > (1200 cpu 1.5gb ram 40gb HDD) to put a clean Lubuntu install on it for a > meeting with my old boss on Thursday to show him how good it is and and a > very reasonable outlay of nothing for either hard or software, possibly > (even hopefully) a few hundred pounds to me for the installation of Lubuntu > on their machines but that is secondary to getting the message out there. > > I have no worries over the 'office' functions (email, spreadsheets, > presentations etc). > The bit that concerns me is the CNC bit along with the software to 'port > the specs' to the CNC machine as their specs often come from third party > places who will quite possibly still be using windoze. > > I have not had enough experience of Ubuntu CNC to say for certain that > there will not be any errors in then putting those files onto a *ubuntu > box, and as that *is* their business they cannot afford any hassle however > small and the transition *must* be seamless, as any hassle will have a > negative impact on their business and they will end up going out and > getting Win7 just for compatibility with their customers. > > If anyone has any thoughts on this please let me know ! Although I no > longer work for them I still have a good relationship with the owners, and > do not wish that to change as I cost them time / money or worst of all a > customer! > > Just my thoughts > > Peter Smout > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> >
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