Andir -- The rest of the world is not moving to Linux yet. Geeks, yes. Knowledgeable users, some. The general public, almost nobody. The whole WHS concept seems to be to make it easy enough for anyone to use, so there's your caveat: Linux is still way to hard for most people to get up and running, maintain, update, and use. I should know -- I just spent 4 hours this afternoon trying to get an Ubuntu Samba share to work across a wired/wireless network of OS X, Windows 2000, XP Home, and XP Pro machines at my house. It took an hour to get them all reading the share. It took another 3 hours to get everything but the Windows 2000 machine to write to the share. I'll deal with it again tomorrow if I get a chance, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I even think of suggesting anyone else in my family try it at their house.
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uetani @ Jan 8th 2007 11:09AM
Andir -- The rest of the world is not moving to Linux yet. Geeks, yes. Knowledgeable users, some. The general public, almost nobody. The whole WHS concept seems to be to make it easy enough for anyone to use, so there's your caveat: Linux is still way to hard for most people to get up and running, maintain, update, and use. I should know -- I just spent 4 hours this afternoon trying to get an Ubuntu Samba share to work across a wired/wireless network of OS X, Windows 2000, XP Home, and XP Pro machines at my house. It took an hour to get them all reading the share. It took another 3 hours to get everything but the Windows 2000 machine to write to the share. I'll deal with it again tomorrow if I get a chance, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I even think of suggesting anyone else in my family try it at their house.
Uetani