co2shaun Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I am running an older that has windows xp installed on it as a webserver of sorts. It runs one program that streams data on port 5000. Other than that the computer is not for anything. My question is what do I need to do when support for xp ends? I have looked for some linux alternatives to the software but haven't found any. Should I upgrade to windows 7 or will this computer still be secure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 What type of streaming is it doing? Maybe the community can help with linux alternatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
co2shaun Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 (edited) The windows box is running an NTRIP caster/server to upload RTK base station corrections. There are a few linux versions out there but I haven't had a whole lot of luck with them. Here is a link to what I'm using now. http://lefebure.com/software/ntripcaster/ Edited April 3, 2013 by co2shaun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Older machine and hardware, will it even run Windows 7, more importantly, the program you need to run, does it run under 7? If so, go 7, its a great OS(for me personally, but demanding on resources and needs lots of HDD space and RAM, and if the hardware is older, linux with a light user interface might be the better way to go). The other option? Leave XP on there. Really. If it ain't broke, don't "fix" it. Judy because its XP and no support life cycle, does not mean suddenly throw it away. I worked at a bank that had legacy hardware and drivers for devices that only ran under certain versions of windows. It sounds crazy, but we had NT4 and Win95 boxes sitting on the corporate lan. If well protected(easier said than done) they are still out there, in many shops and companies, including Win3.1 still running on embedded cash registers at stores. So long as you are behind NAT and fully updated, best bet is segmenting off the machine or even virtualizing it onto a newer one so it is preserved, and if you can swing the money, I would go Win7 Pro 64bit on a new box with top end hardware, and make a virtual disk image, of the existing XP box after shrinking the drive. Virtual machines let you snapshot the box too, so if something suddenly DID get whacked, you can revert back to that snapshot and its like brand new, so long as the host itself, is not compromised. Still, if money is a factor and no way to upgrade, find a light weight linux distro that will do the same thing, but just know, linux != windows, and you will run into your own issues with linux, which if you aren't versed in linux, won't make you any safer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 What exactly does that software do? Also, if that machine is not facing the internet side, as Digip pointed out, you could isolate it from your main network. By using Vlan or simply setting up an additional network that doesn't have access to the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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