Pale Blue Ego Wrote: > Sorry, I wasn't meaning to start a religious war. I use Windows for my > other PCs, but for a file server there really isn't anything to > administer, so I chose Linux for its $0 price, low overhead, and high > reliability. I actually do everything else (ripping, tagging, backing > up the collection) with Windows, since I'm a lot more familiar with > Windows tools. > > Peace.
Hey - no problem. Like I said I have no problem with Linux and often recommend it for both home and work applications, I'm just wary of the blanket "linux roolz windows suckz" (or indeed vice-versa) propaganda. I'm a firm beliver in picking the right tool for the job - I'd never run IIS in my web server farm but I'd also be unlikely to put Linux on a business-user's desktop. With specific regard to SlimServer I'm a little conflicted. Part of me says it's a perfect Linux application - domestic servers are often underpowered and rarely have full time admins, so something lightweight and reliable is essential. Slimserver is written in Perl, and we all know that that's more at home on *nix based platforms. However, and it's a big however, I do see a number of issues with people building/installing/running SS on various linux platforms. Some of it is probably attributable to linux user's natural tendancy to fiddle with things :) But in several years of running SS on XP I've never really had anything other than a flawless experience. That, and past problems with Samba, are what have kept me from running Linux on my SS machine. But I encourage everyone to choose what's best for them :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19951 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
