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Re: [LUG] More weird stuff from MS

 

Neil Williams wrote:
> "Why can you not start with Server Core and build it up to the complete
> edition? "That's a beautiful design goal and our long-term ambition,"
> according to Microsoft product manager Gareth Hall."
> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/27/windows_2008_web_server_core_review/
> 
> Umm, doesn't that mean that Microsoft consider most GNU/Linux
> distributions as having a beautiful design goal? (and a goal that has
> been satisfied for about a decade.)
> 
> By design, nearly all GNU/Linux distributions install a mini-setup that
> is almost enough to run on any server with addition of minimal packages.
> In Debian, it's called debootstrap (or cdebootstrap).
> 
> Oh and none of those minimal setups require any GUI and all are able to
> load an editor (Notepad) and edit system configuration files (RegEdit)
> without a GUI being necessary.
> 
> Finally, this may interest some:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/ec_fines_microsoft_largest_ever/
> 
> 

I read somewhere about their next version of Windows Server doing just 
that, a base OS with components added on.  Saying that though, knowing 
MS, it'll probably be a base OS with a GUI, SMB filesystem, web browser 
and all sorts of other stuff built in which can't be removed.

Rob

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