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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."
The company will support multiple home servers on the same network, but it's still murky how that will work."
Easy... Lots of Money.
Linux, BSD, Windows, all work fine as servers if you aren't an idiot.
And Macs work great if you are! ; )
This guy's the limit!
1973 called. It wants its system interconnectivity dilemmas back.
WHS is for media? Are you sure Microsoft didn't mean "VHS" or...is it still Beta? :)
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
The Linux box has now run for two years, and no issues.
I know, your home server has been very stable and reliable and for the most part of these two years, I have tunneled my hacking attacks through it. Keep up the good work!
Heh, In the days of real computers we had to beg, just to use Kermit!
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Sigh... If only. Modding would be so much more fun.
Somehow, I'm not convinced. Ubuntu is still Linux. You can never click a few buttons and be finished with Linux, or indeed with any UNIX derivative. After you spend enough time doing the recurring tweaks, you just stop noticing them, and think it's being finished.
I could be wrong, but I don't think it's likely enough to investigate.
Microsoft cheerleader, blue flag waving, you got a problem with that?
what a useless comment.
if you're a tech geek with server experience, of course this isn't the product for you, just like you won't be using some fully automated linux installation if you've been compiling your own kernels since the age of 12.
choo choo, it's the obvious train. last stop: you.
on another note
i'd probably like it. easy to set up, that's the way i want it
me and my thinkpad, sittin' in a tree, c-o-d-i-n-g...
This is precisely the reason to have a home server with all your important stuff on it - so if you do something stupid and bork your workstation, all is not lost. Just re-install the OS and hook back up to your server...
Now we just need to train the unwashed masses about NOT surfing shady porn sites from the server, but to do it from their workstations...
"But this one goes to 11!"
But because it's Apple...the Apple tax is ok, even respectable to pay. Arguably, they're charging more than it's worth to produce.
/.er places value on things, none of it makes much sense
With Sony, even with them selling bleeding edge tech at a LOSS, that's not good enough.
Really, I just don't understand how the average
It's all about reputation.
Apple wants to copulate with you. Sony waits for you to drop the soap.
"At the MOST you have to say "Yes, I know it's dangerous to share my pr0n". Click Yes and you're sharing."
:P
You obviosly have never tried to use windows to share your pr0n.