http://www.webstuffscan.com/2007/01/23/windows-home-server-in-detail/ Scanning the Web for the good stuff Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.webstuffscan.com/2007/01/23/windows-home-server-in-detail/comment-page-1/#comment-89 veridicus Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:15:36 +0000 http://www.webstuffscan.com/2007/01/23/windows-home-server-in-detail/#comment-89 Anyone with an interest in a home server is going to be at least a bit more technically knowledgeable than your average person. And people with computer skills will usually know Linux is a much better choice for a server, assuming you have the skills to set it up. Today you can easily take an old desktop computer, drop a Linux distro in the CD drive, and have a configured server up in 15 minutes. And with <a href="http://www.msversus.org/microsoft-security.html" rel="nofollow">Microsoft's horrible security record</a> you're much safer having Linux facing the internet from your home network. Anyone with an interest in a home server is going to be at least a bit more technically knowledgeable than your average person. And people with computer skills will usually know Linux is a much better choice for a server, assuming you have the skills to set it up. Today you can easily take an old desktop computer, drop a Linux distro in the CD drive, and have a configured server up in 15 minutes. And with Microsoft’s horrible security record you’re much safer having Linux facing the internet from your home network.

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