OK, I take back that statement to some degree. I just can't picture a small or medium sized business installing any CLI operating system when all they want is a basic domain or file server. I get the impression that Server Core is only used by large businesses with their own dedicated IT team.
-Ryan On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry.car...@ubuntu.com>wrote: > Ryan Dwyer wrote: > > The vast majority of system administrators are Windows admins. Windows > > admins won't use anything without a GUI, so making it CLI only would be > > shooting yourself in the foot. > > So Windows admins won't use Windows Server 2008 "Server Core" [1] ? > > Note the interesting quote from Andrew Mason: > > Andrew Mason, a program manager on the Windows Server team, noted that a > primary motivation for producing a Server Core variant of Windows Server > 2008 was to reduce the attack surface of the operating system, and that > about 70% of the security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows from the > prior five years would not have affected Server Core. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008#Server_Core > > -- > Thierry Carrez > Ubuntu server team >
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