Best OS for Home network

lokkers · 3 Feb 2011 at 08:19

jonneymendoza said:
The job market dont give two ****s if u know windows 7 but they do if u know linux because thats whats used in the real business world

What a load of rubbish - none of my employers have used linux, and it's unlikely any of them will in the future either. It entirely depends what job market you want to get in to.

OP: Go with what suits your requirements best. I've had Windows Home Server V1, Windows Home Server V2 (Preview), Windows 2008R2 and now Windows 7 on my file server. To echo BoomAM, there's nowt wrong with W7 in a home environment. I have IIS, SQL Express, Team Foundation Server and AirVideo server installed, and have configured Windows Media Center so I can stream to any of my other non-iOS devices (like my Xbox360). There are Windows clients/servers for all the things you seem to want too.

That said, if you want some linux exposure go down that route

jonneymendoza · 3 Feb 2011 at 09:38

Yes it depends on the job market and the job market im in is java

lokkers · 3 Feb 2011 at 10:18

And the job market I'm in is .NET

memyselfandi · 3 Feb 2011 at 10:40

At the end of the day use what ever OS you are comfortable entrusting your data too. If you are happy to use Linux then use a flavour of that. If you prefer to use a Windwos variant then use that.

You need to be happy that what ever you use has he functionality that you want and that you can use it to host your data in a secure manner (in all senses of the word).

iraiguana · 3 Feb 2011 at 13:18

It is nice to learn a new OS, I use a combination of windows, osx and ubuntu (for my server). Once I got it up and running ubuntu is nice. Getting it there was a little hassle, so try and set it all up when it is not running headless as it will make troubleshooting much quicker. I was unlucky and my mini-ITX board requires a monitor occasionally to reboot correctly with ubuntu.

prescott28 · 5 Feb 2011 at 21:16

So no one thinks that Windows Home server is worth the money then? From and read and alook at the Microsoft site it seems to do more than Windows 7 or Linux in being a server and dealing with backups.

J1nxy · 5 Feb 2011 at 22:16

v1 is very good, and I've been running it for just over a year on an Acer Aspire Home Server. v2 or Vail as it is codenamed is pretty much a failure already as the biggest feature of v1, the drive extender has been dropped and everything else can be done with v1

slylittlefox · 5 Feb 2011 at 22:53

My understanding was that TomCat was old hat now; and GlassFish had taken over?

As for music streaming, check out Subsonic.

jonneymendoza · 6 Feb 2011 at 11:00

slylittlefox said:
My understanding was that TomCat was old hat now; and GlassFish had taken over?

As for music streaming, check out Subsonic.

really? since when?

slylittlefox · 6 Feb 2011 at 12:38

Well it's been out since ~2006, so some time in between then and now