argedion
The TechnoFrog
Thats what it was I finally found it and changed it over to chrome. I just got confused because chrome said it was the default browser. But all is well that ends well.
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Thats what it was I finally found it and changed it over to chrome. I just got confused because chrome said it was the default browser. But all is well that ends well.
Prinny
Resident Linux Nutcase
DRM in a sewing machine? Wow...
Also, has anyone tried the SteamOS yet? I think its based on Debian...but I forget now
Yeh that's The Walt Disney Company for you. Seems they'll go to any lengths possible to try and restrict their intellectual property(IP). I know they're fighting a losing battle here in China...LOL.
Disney was the primary lobbyist for the Copyright Term Extension Act, aka the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. Because the copyright for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck etc. was in danger of expiring.
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
This is a post from a digital photography group in Yahoo.
I've got some of Roger Clark's books on astronomy, he's good.
It's long, but informative.
"Let me first start with some background for those who may read
but are unfamiliar with the linux/unix world. Unix started
long before PCs (MSDOS and windows) and was sold by AT&T to Novel
in the 1990s. Now unix is owned by the Unix Group.
Linux was written independently in part to avoid growing high
licensing costs at the time (1990s?), but to the same specifications
as unix, so code can be transported between all unix and linux
flavors with little to no changes. Linux+Unix dominate the world
in all computers except the desktop. For example, Apple macs, tablets and
iphones are unix. The US phone system is unix (maybe now also linux).
Almost all supercomputers are linux with a few unix. Most web
and other business servers are linux and unix. Android phones
are linux. Tivo is linux. Many devices with embedded computers
are run by linux. Many spacecraft are controlled by linux/unix.
But on top of linux is the user interface (e.g. android is different
than apple's mac, which is different than tivo). Google is all
linux, as are many other businesses. Microsoft's
original business plan was to migrate to unix, but they changed
with the idea of locking users in with a proprietary system,
and they have done quite a job at that.
I use Linux Mint with the Mate interface. Linux Mint is
Ubuntu linux with a more traditional (MS windows like) interface,
but one that makes more sense and is more functional in my opinion
(remember I came to the linux desktop from windows XP, which I
thought was basically OK even though it lacked some functionality
I wanted.) I do not like the mac interface, especially the global
menu. Why for example, when I am working on a window in the
lower right corner, should I have to move the mouse 2 meters
(about 6 feet) to the upper left corner of my dual 30-inch
monitors just to get to a menu function? With linux all that
is programmable so if you really like that, you can have it, or
a more MS-windows-like interface.
Ubuntu, which really made linux on the desktop popular with the
Gnome interface looked a lot like windows. But with Ubuntu
version 11 (in 2011) changed to what they called the Unity interface.
Iron as it split the user community.
Many hated Unity, as it seemed a strange version of Macs with hooks and
look and feel for touch tablets--kind of like windows 8 a couple of
years before microsoft got there. A colleague who switched to
Unity and is a Mac user, said they took the worst of the Mac
user interface (UI) for Unity. Many jumped ship to the up and coming
linux Mint and Mint maintained the more traditional look and feel
with the Mate interface. My colleague now uses Linux Mint with Mate.
I also made the jump to Mint. Mint also offers other UIs,
including Cinnamon and XFE. One advantage of linux is the ability
to choose the user interface unlike macs and windows. The Mate
interface in my opinion is the closest to windows, so would have the
least learning curve for windows users moving to linux.
The reason Linux/Unix work well on so many devices, from phones, tablets,
desktops, business servers, web servers, to supercomputers is the
inherent design of the operating system. That leads to impressive
flexibility, as well as very good security and system stability.
I am typing this on a laptop that was booted 32 days ago. I have traveled
all over the US from the east to the west coast without rebooting,
just put in hibernate mode (e.g. on an airplane). And as a power user,
I have 6 desktops open with heavy computing and complex tasks running,
ranging from scientific analyses to photo editing, and each with perhaps
a dozen windows open. I could not do that with a windows machine (but
could with a mac---except for the multiple desktops).
Also, I can do this on linux with only 8 GBytes of RAM
because the programs are very efficient and so is the virtual
memory system. On my desktop, I run 8 desktops. For example, one desktop
may be email and web surfing, another photo editing, a 3rd family pictures,
4th writing an article with all its graphics, a 5th a windows virtual
machine,
etc. Info can be cut and pasted to any desktop and any window can be
moved to any desktop. I'm really surprised microsoft and apple have
not copied this functionality.
I have been a unix user since 1976, and linux since sometime
in the 1990s, but until the mid-2000s, only command line and not
the desktop, and not for general desktop work including photo editing.
Then I went dual boot with linux/windows and started
seeing how good the linux UI and desktop was. For the last several
years (around 2010 if I remember correctly) I pretty much use only
linux for everything except photoshop, ImagesPlus, PtGui, and at work
a couple of internal web sites that only work with windows explorer.
I do all my presentations, and write all my papers, with the
Libreoffice suite. I do occasionally need excel as the Libreoffice
spreadsheet still lacks one feature on plots that I need.
For the last three years, when I go on a photo trip, including
long safari trips to the Serengeti, I only take linux laptops.
I review all my images and back up all my images using linux.
I have also found that linux downloads my images off of memory cards
and writes results to USB disks 2 or more times faster than the
same hardware on windows (using USB 3 devices). This has proved
very important on intense photo trips, like an African safari
when electricity is only available for short times.
In fact it was a new windows 7 laptop that I had taken to the Serengeti
that drove me to vow to never return to the Serengeti with a
windows machine again. I likened windows 7 as a boy scout who
wants to take the little old lady across the street--but never asks
the little old lady if she wants to cross the street. Windows wanted
to do things its way and I wanted to do something else--read my photo
memory cards and back them up to usb drives with my own directory
structure. Windows kept putting stuff in other locations, like
downloads (I forget exactly--I erased that bad memory from my mind).
I do all file management and backup with linux for all my photos and data.
When I travel, my USB disks are encrypted with the linux LUKS system.
There is only about a 10% loss in I/O speed in my experience.
If a disk is lost or stolen, a windows user can't even see the
partition on the disk. Even funnier--I put a small (e.g. 50 GByte
NTFS) partition on a 1TB USB disk, then an encrypted ext4 linux
partition for the rest of the drive. The windows users sees the
NTFS partition and doesn't even see the linux partition. Yet linux
reads all windows and mac formatted partitions just fine.
So, in summary, I do pretty much everything I want/need to do,
from email, surfing the web, file management, writing papers,
presentations from those at professional scientific meetings to
photo presentations as well as night sky image planning, etc
with linux. My desktop is also color managed and color management
works better with the windows virtual machine and photoshop
than it ever did with windows in my experience
(that was another factor in my moving to linux--windows had too many
device driver conflicts for consistent color).
I continue to be impressed with the linux desktop and the programs
that are available for it. For example, someone just prepared a
dvd iso image for me and put it on dropbox for me to download.
I thought I would have to cut a dvd to extract the data (which
is trivial under linux). But all I did was right click on the
iso file and there was a pop up menu that included:
"open with archive manager"
and it showed all the files just like in a directory. I simply
dragged and dropped them into my chosen directory. For me, things like
this are simple, just works, and are intuitive enough for me to
find without having to do a web search. That is my general
experience with linux as a desktop computer: it just works. And it is
very stable. The need to reboot is rare, even for backups or
system updates, and never for a program install.
So here is what I recommend for those who want to move to linux:
Linux Mint with the Mate interface: Main Page - Linux Mint
On the download page, Download - Linux Mint
Select first MATE interface (with multimedia support).
If you want to run photoshop CS5 or 6, then you need to run
windows in a virtual machine. Get virtualbox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/
and install windows as a virtual machine. (But see below and install
from linux.)
Once windows is installed, boot windows in the virtual machine and
install the extension pack (see the virtualbox download page).
This allows you access to all the linux disks. This way, you
can do most things on linux, e.g. directories with images,
and photoshop can see those images on the linux disks.
There is plenty of online help for this.
In linux, program installation is the simplest of all operating systems.
For example, to install virtualbox, simply go the system administration
tab, and open the synaptic package manager. Type in virtualbox
in the search box, then click on the virtualbox line that shows in
the search and click apply. Done. Select thousands of other
programs and install similarly easily. (For example type "photo"
in the search box and see hundreds of photography applications--all free.)
Some windows programs may not need to be run in a windows virtual machine.
Some can be run in wine (free open source program) or another commercial
package (crossover). See:
4+ Ways to Run Windows Software on Linux
I do not believe photoshop CS5 or 6 works in wine or crossover, so you do
need a windows virtual machine for that.
Gimp will soon be a photoshop alternative and it is now if one does not
need 16-bit support (I do). There are development versions of gimp
available now with 16-bit support, but may be buggy. I intend to drop
most if not all photoshop use once gimp gets 16-bit support.
Then one needs raw image conversion software. For now, I use ACR in
photoshop. I'll be looking at both linux open source as well as
commercial solutions for raw converters. For example, Capture One
might be an alternative (I need to check if it runs under wine),
or if they have a linux port.
Finally, I turn my old desktops into linux file servers. They work
as great backup machines. A simple one line command using
rsync can back up a disk drive to a remote machine
and only back up new and changed files. Very simple but
effective management. This works for backup to USB disks too.
I'll probably use this post as the beginnings of an article on
using linux for photographers."
Roger
Here's his website:
Clarkvision.com home
It's copied and pasted since I'm not sure whether or not a non member can see a Yahoo group post.
I've got some of Roger Clark's books on astronomy, he's good.
It's long, but informative.
"Let me first start with some background for those who may read
but are unfamiliar with the linux/unix world. Unix started
long before PCs (MSDOS and windows) and was sold by AT&T to Novel
in the 1990s. Now unix is owned by the Unix Group.
Linux was written independently in part to avoid growing high
licensing costs at the time (1990s?), but to the same specifications
as unix, so code can be transported between all unix and linux
flavors with little to no changes. Linux+Unix dominate the world
in all computers except the desktop. For example, Apple macs, tablets and
iphones are unix. The US phone system is unix (maybe now also linux).
Almost all supercomputers are linux with a few unix. Most web
and other business servers are linux and unix. Android phones
are linux. Tivo is linux. Many devices with embedded computers
are run by linux. Many spacecraft are controlled by linux/unix.
But on top of linux is the user interface (e.g. android is different
than apple's mac, which is different than tivo). Google is all
linux, as are many other businesses. Microsoft's
original business plan was to migrate to unix, but they changed
with the idea of locking users in with a proprietary system,
and they have done quite a job at that.
I use Linux Mint with the Mate interface. Linux Mint is
Ubuntu linux with a more traditional (MS windows like) interface,
but one that makes more sense and is more functional in my opinion
(remember I came to the linux desktop from windows XP, which I
thought was basically OK even though it lacked some functionality
I wanted.) I do not like the mac interface, especially the global
menu. Why for example, when I am working on a window in the
lower right corner, should I have to move the mouse 2 meters
(about 6 feet) to the upper left corner of my dual 30-inch
monitors just to get to a menu function? With linux all that
is programmable so if you really like that, you can have it, or
a more MS-windows-like interface.
Ubuntu, which really made linux on the desktop popular with the
Gnome interface looked a lot like windows. But with Ubuntu
version 11 (in 2011) changed to what they called the Unity interface.
Iron as it split the user community.
Many hated Unity, as it seemed a strange version of Macs with hooks and
look and feel for touch tablets--kind of like windows 8 a couple of
years before microsoft got there. A colleague who switched to
Unity and is a Mac user, said they took the worst of the Mac
user interface (UI) for Unity. Many jumped ship to the up and coming
linux Mint and Mint maintained the more traditional look and feel
with the Mate interface. My colleague now uses Linux Mint with Mate.
I also made the jump to Mint. Mint also offers other UIs,
including Cinnamon and XFE. One advantage of linux is the ability
to choose the user interface unlike macs and windows. The Mate
interface in my opinion is the closest to windows, so would have the
least learning curve for windows users moving to linux.
The reason Linux/Unix work well on so many devices, from phones, tablets,
desktops, business servers, web servers, to supercomputers is the
inherent design of the operating system. That leads to impressive
flexibility, as well as very good security and system stability.
I am typing this on a laptop that was booted 32 days ago. I have traveled
all over the US from the east to the west coast without rebooting,
just put in hibernate mode (e.g. on an airplane). And as a power user,
I have 6 desktops open with heavy computing and complex tasks running,
ranging from scientific analyses to photo editing, and each with perhaps
a dozen windows open. I could not do that with a windows machine (but
could with a mac---except for the multiple desktops).
Also, I can do this on linux with only 8 GBytes of RAM
because the programs are very efficient and so is the virtual
memory system. On my desktop, I run 8 desktops. For example, one desktop
may be email and web surfing, another photo editing, a 3rd family pictures,
4th writing an article with all its graphics, a 5th a windows virtual
machine,
etc. Info can be cut and pasted to any desktop and any window can be
moved to any desktop. I'm really surprised microsoft and apple have
not copied this functionality.
I have been a unix user since 1976, and linux since sometime
in the 1990s, but until the mid-2000s, only command line and not
the desktop, and not for general desktop work including photo editing.
Then I went dual boot with linux/windows and started
seeing how good the linux UI and desktop was. For the last several
years (around 2010 if I remember correctly) I pretty much use only
linux for everything except photoshop, ImagesPlus, PtGui, and at work
a couple of internal web sites that only work with windows explorer.
I do all my presentations, and write all my papers, with the
Libreoffice suite. I do occasionally need excel as the Libreoffice
spreadsheet still lacks one feature on plots that I need.
For the last three years, when I go on a photo trip, including
long safari trips to the Serengeti, I only take linux laptops.
I review all my images and back up all my images using linux.
I have also found that linux downloads my images off of memory cards
and writes results to USB disks 2 or more times faster than the
same hardware on windows (using USB 3 devices). This has proved
very important on intense photo trips, like an African safari
when electricity is only available for short times.
In fact it was a new windows 7 laptop that I had taken to the Serengeti
that drove me to vow to never return to the Serengeti with a
windows machine again. I likened windows 7 as a boy scout who
wants to take the little old lady across the street--but never asks
the little old lady if she wants to cross the street. Windows wanted
to do things its way and I wanted to do something else--read my photo
memory cards and back them up to usb drives with my own directory
structure. Windows kept putting stuff in other locations, like
downloads (I forget exactly--I erased that bad memory from my mind).
I do all file management and backup with linux for all my photos and data.
When I travel, my USB disks are encrypted with the linux LUKS system.
There is only about a 10% loss in I/O speed in my experience.
If a disk is lost or stolen, a windows user can't even see the
partition on the disk. Even funnier--I put a small (e.g. 50 GByte
NTFS) partition on a 1TB USB disk, then an encrypted ext4 linux
partition for the rest of the drive. The windows users sees the
NTFS partition and doesn't even see the linux partition. Yet linux
reads all windows and mac formatted partitions just fine.
So, in summary, I do pretty much everything I want/need to do,
from email, surfing the web, file management, writing papers,
presentations from those at professional scientific meetings to
photo presentations as well as night sky image planning, etc
with linux. My desktop is also color managed and color management
works better with the windows virtual machine and photoshop
than it ever did with windows in my experience
(that was another factor in my moving to linux--windows had too many
device driver conflicts for consistent color).
I continue to be impressed with the linux desktop and the programs
that are available for it. For example, someone just prepared a
dvd iso image for me and put it on dropbox for me to download.
I thought I would have to cut a dvd to extract the data (which
is trivial under linux). But all I did was right click on the
iso file and there was a pop up menu that included:
"open with archive manager"
and it showed all the files just like in a directory. I simply
dragged and dropped them into my chosen directory. For me, things like
this are simple, just works, and are intuitive enough for me to
find without having to do a web search. That is my general
experience with linux as a desktop computer: it just works. And it is
very stable. The need to reboot is rare, even for backups or
system updates, and never for a program install.
So here is what I recommend for those who want to move to linux:
Linux Mint with the Mate interface: Main Page - Linux Mint
On the download page, Download - Linux Mint
Select first MATE interface (with multimedia support).
If you want to run photoshop CS5 or 6, then you need to run
windows in a virtual machine. Get virtualbox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/
and install windows as a virtual machine. (But see below and install
from linux.)
Once windows is installed, boot windows in the virtual machine and
install the extension pack (see the virtualbox download page).
This allows you access to all the linux disks. This way, you
can do most things on linux, e.g. directories with images,
and photoshop can see those images on the linux disks.
There is plenty of online help for this.
In linux, program installation is the simplest of all operating systems.
For example, to install virtualbox, simply go the system administration
tab, and open the synaptic package manager. Type in virtualbox
in the search box, then click on the virtualbox line that shows in
the search and click apply. Done. Select thousands of other
programs and install similarly easily. (For example type "photo"
in the search box and see hundreds of photography applications--all free.)
Some windows programs may not need to be run in a windows virtual machine.
Some can be run in wine (free open source program) or another commercial
package (crossover). See:
4+ Ways to Run Windows Software on Linux
I do not believe photoshop CS5 or 6 works in wine or crossover, so you do
need a windows virtual machine for that.
Gimp will soon be a photoshop alternative and it is now if one does not
need 16-bit support (I do). There are development versions of gimp
available now with 16-bit support, but may be buggy. I intend to drop
most if not all photoshop use once gimp gets 16-bit support.
Then one needs raw image conversion software. For now, I use ACR in
photoshop. I'll be looking at both linux open source as well as
commercial solutions for raw converters. For example, Capture One
might be an alternative (I need to check if it runs under wine),
or if they have a linux port.
Finally, I turn my old desktops into linux file servers. They work
as great backup machines. A simple one line command using
rsync can back up a disk drive to a remote machine
and only back up new and changed files. Very simple but
effective management. This works for backup to USB disks too.
I'll probably use this post as the beginnings of an article on
using linux for photographers."
Roger
Here's his website:
Clarkvision.com home
It's copied and pasted since I'm not sure whether or not a non member can see a Yahoo group post.
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
He's right as far as that goes, but there still is no comparative software to Adobe Illustrator and Indesign. If there are, instead of using ONE program you have to use 3 or 4 others to get the same result.
argedion
The TechnoFrog
Linux users are used to improvising more than window users. We had to get alternative programs some that are not up to standard so we find other apps to help out or we dive into the coding and make it like we want. I'm the other apps type no diving here 
The way I see it is like this. It really boils down to if you want to use Linux or Not. Most of us in this thread have chosen to use Linux for what ever reason. If one is planning or even thinking of using Linux the only suggestion I can give is to try a few different flavors and a few different desktops (Live CD's are best) check out the distro forums and check in here.
The way I see it is like this. It really boils down to if you want to use Linux or Not. Most of us in this thread have chosen to use Linux for what ever reason. If one is planning or even thinking of using Linux the only suggestion I can give is to try a few different flavors and a few different desktops (Live CD's are best) check out the distro forums and check in here.
Thing is these are very expensive proprietary programs, $100s of dollars, Adobe productivity stuff always is expensive. If the job requires them, e.g. Pantone support, and you have the budget then that's what you have to use. Adobe Creative Cloud is $49 a month.
And what's the trade-off? Spend THOUSANDS of dollars on proprietary OSes and software programs (so you can use just one program to do your task), or get free, open source, OSes and software and be inconvenienced by having to use multiple programs to do your task? If that were a concern for me [it's not, as the GIMP, for example, does everything I need] I'd still go with Linux.
From the article:
This! It's kind of like what I've been saying, i.e., that installing programs on Kubuntu [or any modern Linux] SHOULD be a simple, simple task.
ETA: Mike and Frogster, I hadn't read your posts yet when I wrote the above. I see we're all on the same page!
Dngrsone
Android Expert
Yet should be and actual practice are oftentimes entirely different.
For instance, I decided yesterday that I needed to install Kindle Reader in Mint.
It should have been a simple matter of downloading the PC version of Kindle Reader and installing it through wine.
Except. My Mint 15 had wine 1.4.1, and the Kindle program wasn't installing.
So, I looked in the wine database to see which version was confirmed to work, and tried installing that.
Didn't work.
So I had to install the latest/greatest (1.7.8), and try again.
Thankfully, I did the trick. But still, that was forty minutes of frustration.
But that's not a native Linux program, so it doesn't count. Window$ programs may or may not run via wine, but that's a completely separate issue from installing native Linux software.
You know what I do when there is no Linux version of something? I contact the company, in this case Amazon. I point out to them that: A) the product (Kindle) is Linux based (although the app you're talking about is not run on the Kindle), and B) they are Linux based, and C) they shouldn't dismiss their customers who are intelligent enough to make the same choice *THEY* have made, i.e., to run Linux.
If people simply download window$ versions of software with the plan to run them via wine, the company will NEVER know that there's demand for a Linux version. We have to speak up!
Dngrsone
Android Expert
I don't use wine if Linux doesn't support it nativly then I do with out it. Not that wine is a bad thing or anything I just don't have a use for it. It's easy enough to install and run but I rather not have any remnants of windows on my smooth running machine
Hm.
Easier said than done for some of us.
As for me, I use the best tool available. Sometimes that means I have to boot Windows, other times I can get away with using wine.
Same here. (Although, in all fairness, we're not at risk of any window$ type garbage by using window$ programs via wine.)I don't use wine if Linux doesn't support it nativly then I do with out it. Not that wine is a bad thing or anything I just don't have a use for it. It's easy enough to install and run but I rather not have any remnants of windows on my smooth running machine
The only window$ program I've consistently used via wine is Roller Coaster Tycoon. Or was. I haven't played it now for a long time. :hmmmm2: But I did for 12+ years. Ran great on Linux.
I just stumbled upon this, although the article is from October:
New $3.5 billion US Navy warship runs on Linux. Nice!
New $3.5 billion US Navy warship runs on Linux. Nice!
argedion
The TechnoFrog
Which goes to show that Windows Programs run on Windows better than any emulation. Unless something drastic changes in the way wine runs or Linux gets a foothold on gaming Windows will continue to rule the desktop for gamer's. I play Mahjongg that's about as serious as my gaming gets. For the stuff I do Linux is perfect. For others its just not up to their standards yet.
Linux to me represents freedom from the norm. Its like to me the Burger King of OS while most still prefer McDonald's. While development is getting there for the mass user its not quite what they want yet. You have to remember most people out there are searching for a better Windows not necessarily Linux. They don't want to relearn the computer they just want to do it the way they always have and Linux makes you change things up a bit which was cool with me I wasn't looking for a better windows I was looking for a different system.
argedion
The TechnoFrog
KDE Plasma Media Center 1.2 Looks interesting check it out
Mahjong can be very serious game. I don't play it myself, probably end-up losing too much money.
Dngrsone
Android Expert
Mahjongg for us unlettered Americans is a form of solitaire, nothing more.
Okay you linuxians ...
We are replacing a s good number of older PC's at work due to the change in the tax codes for business assets next year. Some of the oldest will be taken out of the enterprise, but I'd like to try and re-purpose them with Linux. I've been looking at openSuse, Mint and Fedora (Ubuntu is right out) but I'm having a little difficulty discerning which would be best in an enterprise environment.
Anybody got any suggestions?
We are replacing a s good number of older PC's at work due to the change in the tax codes for business assets next year. Some of the oldest will be taken out of the enterprise, but I'd like to try and re-purpose them with Linux. I've been looking at openSuse, Mint and Fedora (Ubuntu is right out) but I'm having a little difficulty discerning which would be best in an enterprise environment.
Anybody got any suggestions?
argedion
The TechnoFrog
I have an Android phone (Motorola Droid Razr M) and when I connect it to the computer running OpenSuse 12.3 I get this weird error of it mounting and unmouting every second. When it does not do this then when I try to copy something over to the phone it tells me MTP has shutdown unexpectedly. I'm not sure if this is a phone issue or an issue with the MTP program. Anyone have any suggestions?
UPDATE:
I updated the mtp lib file and now it works like it was supposed to so it was a computer issue apparently.
UPDATE:
I updated the mtp lib file and now it works like it was supposed to
so it was a computer issue apparently.
argedion
The TechnoFrog
For Enterprise I would look at RedHat. Depending on the Ram and the hardware you may need to live disk a few of them to see which will run best on the hardware its presented with. I'm fond of OpenSuse myself but it does what I need it to with very little trouble. Runs all my hardware on an HP Pavilion dv6. I have and HP Printer Office Jet 5610v it runs flawlessly. OpenSuse also just came out with 13.1 so shouldn't be that many initial updates.
saptech
Android Expert
I also thought about Red Hat since it's for an enterprise. There will be license to get but you will get professional support from them. I'm not sure if Fedora & Mint would be good for this purpose. I guess it may depend on what purpose the machines will be used for.
Look into any distro with good support, Red Hat & Suse Linux Enterprise for the Desktop.
Look into any distro with good support, Red Hat & Suse Linux Enterprise for the Desktop.
For the most part it will be light office apps, email and remote desktop connection to a Windows server.