Hi David, On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 16:41 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > Is this a joke? >
If by "joke" you mean "yet another version of windows which has a subtly different set of tools installed than other versions already available", then yes, it's a belter that Jimmy Tarbuck would be proud of! > Ubuntu with webmin (if you want to be more serious) on it or running gnome > with some utilities would be a hell of a lot better than this. > Shame webmin is no longer maintained in debian or (hence) ubuntu. There is of course the Ubuntu server project which (AIUI) uses ebox for it's admin core which could certainly do _some_ of what this does. Setting up a home server on Ubuntu isn't actually that hard. We have RAID for redundancy built in, LVM for disk space extension, SMB and NFS for sharing, backup software, mail servers and webservers, and remote access tools too. It just needs all tying together really in once neat package which is pretty much what Microsoft have done with Home Server. > This is a very basic server, something you should be able to run on an old > box not running a new machine. Heh. Yeah. I have a server at home. Well technically I have two. One runs ipcop and that's my DHCP, DNS, (transparent) proxy, and all round gateway to the web. The other is running Ubuntu as a file server, ssh server (to let me get into the house via ssh when I am not at home) and backup server. It also holds my local copy of the Ubuntu repos so that all my machines update from that. Both are old Dell desktops of this spec:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 398.801 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 190972 kB Sweet! Cheers, Al.
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