[mdlug] Where's the "Linux Home Server"

[Robert Adkins]

bob dion wrote:
> Robert Adkins wrote:
>   
>>     I say this, because MS has the new "Windows Home Server" product and 
>> quite frankly, from it's snappy little marketing campaign information, I 
>> know that Linux can do a better job for more than a few of the so-called 
>> problems they claim  that "Windows Home Server" *will* easily handle.
>>     
>
> Here's two
>
> http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html
>
> http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
>
>   
    Neither of those fit the bill. Those are "Out of the Box" 
replacements for a "Media Center Edition" of Windows. This "Windows Home 
Server" product would be an extra separate box that acts as the central 
hub for the entire home network.

    Printing, file sharing, outside of the home file streaming for media 
and straight out sharing for non-media files, automatic backups of all 
desktop systems entire file systems every night, automatic backups of 
all data stored on the "Home Server", simple expansion setup for adding 
additional hard drive space to the "Home Server", network security in 
the form of "pushing" AV updates and scanning all files on the server.

    It does far more than a Media Center PC will do.

    I know most of the above is possible with Linux. Does anyone have 
something ready to go, that does all of this already?

    -Rob