Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Apr 2007 10:50 UTC, submitted by danwarne
"At APC we've been running the Beta 2 edition of Windows Home Server for the past two months and it's acquitted itself surprisingly well - no doubt a reflection on the time this 'server for the rest of us' spent in the Redmond skunkworks. There's still some 'fit and finish' to appear before it hits the Release Candidate milestone around Q3, prior to the platform's debut towards the end of this year - but from what we've seen so far, we'd rate Windows Home Server as one of Microsoft's most polished and most impressive 1.0 releases to date. Here's a walkthrough gallery of screenshots from the Beta 2 build of Windows Home Server." There's also a screenshot gallery for Longhorn Server Beta 3.
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2006-02-02
Suse and RHEL/Centos provide MANY GUI tools to install/setup webservers or other services.
True, and I've been a longtime supporter/advocate of SuSE, largely for that reason.
But, what SuSE, RedHat, and even Apple haven't quite managed, is the packaging with WHS-- The Microsoft portal, the tools to automatically configure/administer the *other* machines on your home network, the automatic backups, user management, the file sharing-- This is all being done at a level that if you understand the concept of webpages, and file sharing, you can use them.
As for security issues, it's certainly possible to construct a "secure" Windows server; WHS seems to fit all the requirements: A carefully defined set of services (heavily firewalled), external connectivity is just HTTP (and in theory, limited to the portal system), and best of all, no user-installed applications.
If it bricks, it's almost certainly going to be a hardware failure.
It *will* however, hurt linux, because now people have the choice of a drop-in server that integrates with their home stuff, and automatically gives them a website, or they can roll their own using some linux distro and hope they can get it all working-- while dealing with people who assume if you don't know the intricacies of httpd.conf and .htaccess, you're an idiot.