Hello World, We are publishing our traditional Greetings Seasons post of the year ! 

Our Best wishes for 2026…

This is the moment of the year where we have to look forward and face new challenges coming.   We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the people who have followed us during 2025 and provided feedback, shared their comments and technical info, remarks that helped us improving proposed solutions.   Thank you also to all the people that have been supporting us and helping us in improving the information provided through this blog.

We would like also to thank our customers and partners for the trust and confidence they have placed in us and  helped us in providing high quality work…during this year 2025.  

We would like to present our best wishes to all of you for this new year 2026.   2025 was really a difficult year for us (at all level).  We are expecting that 2026 will be full of challenges….

Quick Look back at 2025…

In 2025, we have been struggling with a lot of projects and this impacted our capability to publish all the posts we would have loved to post….Even do, it was not easy, we managed to publish some posts during this year. We have been working on 

• We demonstrated how to deploy Ubuntu Landscape.  This is the Canonical solution to manage your Ubuntu infrastructure. Solution is free up to 10 computers. It was interesting to see which option are available and how Canonical is targeting more and more enterprises. 
• We have updated our posts about unattended deployment for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server.  As mentioned in those posts,  they provide a starting point and if you really want to automate a step further, you will probably need to put some efforts on it
• Our famous xrdp-installer.  Through the year,  we have been publishing and releasing incremental version of our famous xrdp-installer script. Each version included either support to the Interim Release of Ubuntu OS or included some improvements.  The latest version (version 1.5.5) has been released recently and support up to Ubuntu 25.10 (and other supported Operating systems) but with major limitations.   Indeed, most modern distributions are switching to Wayland display server.  However, xrdp software package is not yet compatible with the wayland display server and still uses the x11 display server.   We have seen that xrdp team is looking into supporting wayland support but not sure when it will be made available.  In the mean time, there will be a need to find some workarounds or use alternative software solutions.  For Ubuntu with Gnome Desktop, the option is definitely the  built-in Gnome remote desktop tool.  for other distributions, it will depends based on the possibility to install X11 libraries or not.   We are looking into other software solution…and we will try to write about it in 2026
• We managed to update the Change GDM Background script which help users customizing even further the look’n feel of their Ubuntu Operating system. This script was supposed to be discontinued but some people asked us to update it.. so, here you go.  The script is  set to version 4.0 and provide an easy interface to work with.  We have also demonstrated how to use built in features to customize the Ubuntu Desktop interface in the past….
• We have been writing mainly about Ubuntu and xRDP package software
•  We didn’t publish any information about Windows 10 End of life (EOL).  We have seen a lot of posts about that.  We have also seen a lot of posts about Windows 11 and how Microsoft is trying to get more and more user data.  I think people are free to choose their operating system and what they want to share. On the other hand, I also think is good that some people show possible alternatives…  

What to expect in 2026…..

2026 is bringing a lot of changes and challenges. 

Ubuntu 26.04 will be released in April 2026 which means that we will need to look into this one.  This release will probably introduces new features and we hope it will keep offering a stable, polished user experience.  xrdp-installer script will probably not include support for Ubuntu 26.04.  Again, this is a limitation of xrdp software and not Ubuntu.  We will probably advice people to move forward using built-in Gnome Remote Desktop.  We would like to see some improvement in the tool. Indeed, you will notice that you need to login twice…. 

In 2026, our internal infrastructure will move away for Windows Operating system.  We will convert most of our machines (workstations and servers) to Ubuntu 24.04 and potentially to Ubuntu 26.04.   Only a few number of machines will be running Windows Operating system (less than 10 %).  We keep these windows machines because of specific applications that run only on windows and no Linux version exists yet…. 

Last year, we have seen also how the Broadcom acquisition affected some of our customers and the fact that ESXI free version was not available anymore but then Broadcom reverted back their decision and free ESXI version seems available again. What we have seen is that a lot of companies have kept running their virtual infrastructure using VMware software solution.  A few number of companies moved away from Broadcom.  For some customers, the choice was to move back to Microsoft Hyper-v solution and others tried multiple other Hypervisor solution (Citrix, Proxmox, nutanix, Oracle, RedHat KVM…) 

Last year, we have also been busy with a lot of upgrade/update projects on Microsoft Technologies.  Microsoft focuses more and more on the Cloud but some enterprises are still running their infrastructure on premises.  Microsoft has made more and more difficult to run software like Exchange, SharePoint, Skype on premises and you need to obtain Software agreement to access these software nowadays.   

So, we have seen in the past few months is that the cloud (M365/Intune/Entra ID) are becoming important within organization.   We also noticed that more and more Linux solution find their way into the Datacentre and they start competing with the well established on-prem Microsoft infrastructure.   Microsoft on-prem infrastructure is also competing with the Microsoft Cloud solution.  We have seen 2 trends within our projects.   The first trend is to go full speed into the Cloud.  The other trend is to come back to on-prem infrastructure…. So, it seems that we will end up with a mixed or hybrid infrastructure in the future…..  

Finally,  the AI revolution is also affecting the way people work.   Some people are exclusively relying on AI to write scripts, provide answers to technical questions, summarize documents… AI will probably become an important tool but people need to learn how to use it and assess the feedback provided by the tool.  Too many time, information provided using such tool were not correct, incomplete or not fitting the existing situation.   Not sure if blogging has still a future since AI is providing all the answers….. Well I guess we will see in the future what this will bring…..

In 2026, we will continue

• investigating xrdp software solution and update our script if needed
• update some of our posts about MDT, PXE and Automated deployment
• touch non Linux topics such as VMware, Exchange, Skype, SQL, Intune… 
• experiment new stuff using Linux as main operating system….
• and more (if time permit…)  

 

Final Notes

As you can see, there is still a lot to do and a lot to speak about but some little time available.  We will try to enjoy the short holidays to rest and come back with some news posts, ideas and some free tools or scripts… 

This is it for this post !

Enjoy your holidays and get ready for 2026.  We wish you all the best for the future…and that we will have a beautiful Year 2026 !! 

Till next Time

See ya