There is a tool analogue to other IP scanners, EtherNet/IP Scanner Software that allows add scanner functionality to any product's feature set. Extracted from the official website: ‘Applications for the EtherNet/IP Scanner Software are EtherNet/IP-capable controllers (PLC) as well as devices which must provide client functionality in the network. The Scanner Software provides I/O Server and I/O Client, Message Server and Message Client capability as well as an Application Programming Interface (API) for the application.’

More or less I have been using all those abovementioned Linux distributives for nearly ten years in a row, and my only claim is that I had not discovered all those a decade earlier. Moreover, throughout these ten years I have never had to ask for any technical/operating support from any distributive vendor. During these years I changed one distributive after another, like many of us still practise, and obviously I have finally found the one I appreciate the most in all senses. I prefer CentOS with its native control panels. I want nothing more, because I need nothing less.

Why not to try installing beautiful Linux Mint distributive and customize it so it looks like Windows OS. I did that with my laptop setting up Windows 7 interface and other stuff, including Chrome browser. Even managed to create hot key combinations for text editor and printing. Zorin is another my choice on your judgement, although the new Linux Mint Mate correlates with Windows on large scale. However, as far as I remember Ubuntu used to be very similar before adapting the Unity desktop.