__/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 23 March 2007 23:26 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Doug Mentohl spake thusly:
>> '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."'
>>
>> http://snipurl.com/1dtgu
>>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014183&intsrc=news_ts_head
>
> Actually that's not bad for a beta in this category. This "product" is
> (more than likely) actually a collection of disparate components ...
> think of the number of separate components that comprise a typical Linux
> file/general-purpose server.
>
> So let them do a "home server"; anything that encourages people to
> back-up can only be a GoodThing®, albeit it would be better if they just
> switched to a more reliable OS like Linux in the process, especially for
> a server product.
>
> For the Mom and Pop Winders people, it's as good an introduction as any
> to "server" thingies, although possibly an unnecessarily expensive one
> (I take it the software component is not free). And if it's as
> unreliable and problematic as Microsoft's other products, it may end up
> being very expensive indeed, one way or another.
It has already got it grave review, while Linux equivalents get the rave
reviews (and are also much cheaper).
Compact, fanless home server runs Debian Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| 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
Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?
,----[ Quote ]
| 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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