"Maybe I'm missing something"Yep, you are. I'm pretty much as anti-Microsoft as anyone, but I do have to admit that Windows Home Server is a very slick piece of software for its intended market. It takes all of the complication out of the tasks it performs, and it performs them quite well.Where it really has any Linux/BSD solution beat (that I've been able to find) is in how it manages storage. All of the hard drives in the computer are presented to the user as one large storage pool, no need to remember that your music is on the drive that you mapped to M: etc... Then, where it really shines, is the ease of adding and removing drives to the pool. All you have to do is plug in the new drive and mark one checkbox on the web interface, then bingo, your existing storage pool is now bigger. Removing a drive is just as simple, click a button in the web interface, and the server automatically moves all of the data on that drive to other drives, then let's you know when it's safe to remove it.Sure, you can accomplish the same end result through Linux based solutions, but not with anything approaching that level of ease. And, frankly, as I get older I'm less and less excited about going home and doing the same work to my network that I have to do at my job all day. I have better things to do with my free time.That said, I would love to see a Linux based home server come out that provides the same level of simplicity, since my WHS beta is expiring soon and I doubt I'll be coughing up the cash for an OEM copy.
Closed AccountNov 12, 2007
Is that an official Canonical project? If it isn't then they should change the name, *Ubuntu* Home Server does violate some Canonical copyrights.
daverave999Nov 13, 2007
Is this the 'Linux Community' I keep hearing about? Educate don't hate.
brettaltonNov 13, 2007
I'm terribly sorry for the double-post, but here's the latest screen of the user interface for people without a ubuntuhomeserver.com phpBB2 account. It's dated 2007-07-16: <a class="user" href="http://www.brettalton.com/uhs/07.07.16-alpha4.png">http://www.brettalton.com/uhs/07.07.16-alpha4.png</a>
init100Nov 13, 2007
Ask them, not us.
init100Nov 13, 2007
"your distro lost all its users"Just because we don't have as many users as Ubuntu, we hardly "lost all our users". According to<a class="user" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics</a>Fedora Core 6 had almost three million unique IP addresses accessing updates, and Fedora 7 had about two million IP addresses accessing updates.
cyberbofhNov 16, 2007
it seams the project has a relaunch<a class="user" href="http://forums.ubuntuhomeserver.org/viewtopic.php?p=683">http://forums.ubuntuhomeserver.org/viewtopic.php?p ...</a>
subliminalurgeNov 16, 2007
"Maybe I'm missing something"Yep, you are. I'm pretty much as anti-Microsoft as anyone, but I do have to admit that Windows Home Server is a very slick piece of software for its intended market. It takes all of the complication out of the tasks it performs, and it performs them quite well.Where it really has any Linux/BSD solution beat (that I've been able to find) is in how it manages storage. All of the hard drives in the computer are presented to the user as one large storage pool, no need to remember that your music is on the drive that you mapped to M: etc... Then, where it really shines, is the ease of adding and removing drives to the pool. All you have to do is plug in the new drive and mark one checkbox on the web interface, then bingo, your existing storage pool is now bigger. Removing a drive is just as simple, click a button in the web interface, and the server automatically moves all of the data on that drive to other drives, then let's you know when it's safe to remove it.Sure, you can accomplish the same end result through Linux based solutions, but not with anything approaching that level of ease. And, frankly, as I get older I'm less and less excited about going home and doing the same work to my network that I have to do at my job all day. I have better things to do with my free time.That said, I would love to see a Linux based home server come out that provides the same level of simplicity, since my WHS beta is expiring soon and I doubt I'll be coughing up the cash for an OEM copy.