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Upgrading The Current Client Operating System Desktops And Laptops

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LSDG, the new research and development group, need to upgrade their current client operating system desktops and laptops. They currently have 280 desktops and laptops that are running Windows 7 and 220 desktops and laptops that are running Windows XP. LSDG need a system that will run a Linux operating system and that will access and share resources with the Linx, LLC’s Microsoft Active Directory domain. The domain consists of several Windows Servers 2012 R2 servers that run various services as DNS, DHCP, web services, Microsoft Active Directory, printing and file sharing.
I believe the best operating system to migrate over to would be the Redhat/CentOS Linux Operating System. This system has features that sets them apart from all the other Linux distributions. It has advanced technology, simple installation, GUI administration tools, software packaging, and two desktop environments.The advanced Linux 3.10 kernel technology has updated security, easy installation, easy to manage the Global File Systems on Fedora. The packaging Redhat software created RPM package management method for Linux. When you are in the process of installing Linux you can choose what disk to partition and set your desktop to be GUI ready. The shell scripts also are contained in subdirectories or the /etc directory and will provide messages to you when services have started correctly or have failed to execute. The two desktop environment that Redhat provides are GNOME and KDE to allow users

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