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Windows Home Server Details
phorest writes "Perhaps Microsoft read the comments from the Slashdot community on Windows Home Server? In any event Microsoft is opening up WHS for users to construct their own system after all; though I'd like to see the price of this OS release before making the jump. From the review: "At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week... Microsoft previewed its long-awaited Windows Home Server product, a Windows Server 2003 R2-based server for consumers that dispenses with the complexities of most Windows Server versions and provides the core storage, sharing, and remote access functionality that digital media and home networking enthusiasts require... Microsoft will make WHS available in two ways: Bundled with new WHS hardware and software-only, the latter so that enthusiasts can install the system on the hardware of their choice... If you're building your own home server, Microsoft requires a 1 GHz processor or better, 512 MB of RAM or more, and as many disks as you think you need. The company will support multiple home servers on the same network, but it's still murky how that will work."
Why does crap like this get modded up as informative? Windows 2003 is NOT Windows XP with some goodies for servers. I'm always amazed at how uneducated Slashbots are when it comes to Microsoft products yet they insist on talking about them and modding morons like this up.
The slight problem with that is that the WRT54G is a gigantic turd for the most part.
Apple's products are expensive, but they don't require luck and 3rd party firmware hacks from random internet people named BrainSlayer (rhymes with trustworthy). An AirPort works out of the box and works well. Paying bargain bin prices gets you bargain bin products.