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

[Robert Adkins]

Ron Blanchett wrote:
> So what is this new Windows home server doing that I can not do with a linux box in
> my home, nothing. Yes it did take me a little time to get everything on by linux server
> setup the way it needed to be for it to work for me but in the end I saved a lot of cash.
> And updates to my setup are free till the end of time, can you say that about the M$
> solution.
>
> -Ron
>
>   
    I can't say that about the MS solution and I'm not pushing that 
solution.
 
    We all talk about getting Linux out there and into people's hands so 
they know that there is something "Different" maybe even something 
"better" than what they are using right now. Yet, here we see a product 
hitting the market and flooding consumers with the "need" to have this 
product and the Linux community has nothing "ready to roll" that does 
all of this in an easy package that requires little to no skill with PCs 
to setup. (As is claimed/suggested through the marketing material with 
the "Windows Home Server".)

    That's what I am saying. That's the kind of stuff that Linux needs 
to have in order to be the alternative to the MS product offering(s).

    -Rob