Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 or RHEL 5 is due to be released today. PC world has an article discussing the newest offering from Redhat. Also ZD Net has this article speculating over whether RHEL 5 will support virtualizaiton out of the box. Also ArsTechnica has an article on the release of RHEL 5. While I don’t use RHEL personally or at work, my home server is CentOS 4.4 which is based on RHEL.
Home Server Review Part 2 of ?
I’ve taken a few screen shots of the Windows Home Server beta. I haven’t really had time to do much testing with the server. The rest of the screen shots can be seen here.
- Default desktop
- Server console
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Home Server Review Part 1 of ?
This weekend I got around to installing the beta for Windows Home Server. Right now I’ve just installed it in a virtual machine. After I updated Vmware to 1.02 the install was very easy. I would have to say easier than installing XP. I didn’t take any screenshots of the install because there was only maybe two steps. I’ll get some screenshots of the desktop and the server interface. I’m also going to install a copy of XP to serve as a client for the server and see how easily it connects and all of the capabilities of the beta.
Windows Home Server
I’ve been invited to beta test Windows Home Server. Invited really isn’t the word I requested to be invited. Anyway I downloaded the ISO and documentation last night and I’m ready to try it out and see the features it offers. From reading here it seems that the biggest selling point is it’s backup capability. It will supposedly backup all computers on your network and using Single Instance Store (taken from Windows 2003 server) keep backup sizes to a minimum by only copying a file that is the same on all machines only one time to a backup.
Microsoft seems to have intergrated all the features off a media center that make it great for a home with the backup solutions from enterprise that everyone needs to keep their digital lives intact following a disaster.
Vmware’s New Enterprise Product
Vmware’s newest virtualization product Vmware ACE 2 is now in public beta. This product seems like it will blow the competition out of the water. From the short description of the beta on Vmware, it seems that you can create one virutal machine for a whole department, floor, etc and it not matter if it’s a what type of computer.
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