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[News] Reviwewers Still Sneeze at Windows Home Server, Incompatible with Linux

  • Subject: [News] Reviwewers Still Sneeze at Windows Home Server, Incompatible with Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:20:29 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Windows Home Server – Is It Really Worth It?

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| Sadly, Home Server does not support Mac or Linux – yet. Mac OS X Leapord's 
| Time Machine program is supposed to have support for Home Server, but for 
| Linux, there doesn't seem to be much hope. Sure, Linux users could access it 
| through a server message block, but I was hoping for an actual program.   
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/08/windows_home_se.html

How typical. Microsoft ignored everything but Microsoft. The reviewer does not
like the product. He joins many others with similar sentiments.


Related:

Who needs Windows Home Server with Linux around?

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| Is this a joke? I only recently started paying attention to Windows Home 
| Server, since I tend to focus more on desktop operating systems and 
| enterprise server systems. So I didn't realize until now that WHS is really 
| just a vanilla file server.   
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9015653445.html


Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?

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| Microsoft just announced it's working on Windows Home Server, which
| among other features, will automatically back up files on all PCs in
| the home. But if the product uses the same kind of brain-dead backup
| built into Windows Vista, this is a product that will be dead on arrival.
| 
| The backup tool built into Windows Vista may be the worst utility
| every packed into an operating system. It doesn't allow you to back
| up individual files, folders or even file types. Instead, you have to
| back up every single file and folder of broad generic types. 
| 
| For example, if you want to back up a single picture, you have to back
| up every single graphic of every graphic file type on your entire PC,
| including all the graphics that Vista itself uses. This means you can
| be forced to back up hundreds of gigabytes of files if you only want
| to back up a few family photos.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4303


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| In an entry on the Home Server blog, program manager Chris Sullivan 
| said that the group has received nearly 2,400 bug reports so far from 
| beta testers, and still had 495, or about 21% of the total, classified 
| as "active."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014183&intsrc=news_ts_head


Review: Excito Bubba home server

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| The Bubba is built around a 160MHz processor, which is only one tenth as fast 
| as a notebook computer's chip, but it uses a special version of the Linux 
| operating system rather than Windows, which means it's more than up to the 
| task.   
| 
| Despite Linux having a fearsome reputation as being hard to set up and use, 
| setting up the Bubba was simple, as long as your router uses DHCP (this is 
| switched on by default for most routers).   
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http://www.vnunet.com/computeractive/hardware/2196911/review-excito-bubba-home-server


Multipurpose home server gains power, features

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| Quad Micro Works is prepping a second release of its Linux-based
| multipurpose home network, gateway, and server appliance. The new
| "Square One Personal Server" will integrate an 802.11g access point, 
| along with a 4-port router and file, print, and Web servers.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2053358509.html


Compelling Linux server slithers into the open

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| Given the compact size of the Slug (it's smaller than most of
| the hard disk enclosures that plug into it), the low power
| consumption and the range of software available, it makes for 
| a pretty compelling little Linux server, particularly for
| developers.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/05/24/slug_linux_server/


Hardware Review: Bubba - The Linux-Based Mini Server

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| Microsoft would like you to think that their new Home Server products
| are something new; affordable devices that sit quietly in the corner
| of your home, providing network backup for your most important files,
| and streaming your media around your home. While Home Server is
| definitely a new approach for Microsoft, it's a niche that their
| nemesis Linux has been filling for some time. If Microsoft wanted
| a masterclass on how to craft their latest assault of consumers'
| homes, they should look to Excito and their Bubba Mini Server.
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/21/213437.php


Server device deemed "best Linux-based product"

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| Bubba is a compact, fanless server appliance with an internal hard
| drive up to 500GB, a 200MHz ARM processor, and a fully customizable
| Debian Linux operating system. 
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6475002954.html


Compact, fanless home server runs Debian Linux

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| A small company in Sweden is shipping a low-power, ultra-quiet
| Linux file and print server based on Debian Linux. Excito's
| "Bubba" is based on a 200MHz ARM processor, and comes equipped
| with 80GB to 500GB drives plus a customizable OS featuring a
| handy torrent/http/ftp download manager.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4105652894.html

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