Windows Home Server, everything you need: features rundown, screens, hands-on

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Andir3.0 @ Jan 8th 2007 10:18AM

If you needed an embedded server, why not do what the rest of the world is doing and loading Linux on it. Given the proper setup, it should be able to stream to any device instead of "windows only" devices. Using TFTP, you could also load a binary image of the OS in case of complete failure. With Linux though, your most threatening failure comes from the hardware installed rather than the OS, so this "feature" isn't as marketable as it would be on a Windows platform.

The only caveat is the Live interconnection, but a nice client/server application (or simply using FTP and granting users access to it) could quickly solve that problem.

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uetani @ Jan 8th 2007 11:09AM

Andir -- The rest of the world is not moving to Linux yet. Geeks, yes. Knowledgeable users, some. The general public, almost nobody. The whole WHS concept seems to be to make it easy enough for anyone to use, so there's your caveat: Linux is still way to hard for most people to get up and running, maintain, update, and use. I should know -- I just spent 4 hours this afternoon trying to get an Ubuntu Samba share to work across a wired/wireless network of OS X, Windows 2000, XP Home, and XP Pro machines at my house. It took an hour to get them all reading the share. It took another 3 hours to get everything but the Windows 2000 machine to write to the share. I'll deal with it again tomorrow if I get a chance, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I even think of suggesting anyone else in my family try it at their house.

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