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Neil Williams wrote: > "Why can you not start with Server Core and build it up to the complete > edition? "That's a beautiful design goal and our long-term ambition," > according to Microsoft product manager Gareth Hall." > http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/27/windows_2008_web_server_core_review/ > > Umm, doesn't that mean that Microsoft consider most GNU/Linux > distributions as having a beautiful design goal? (and a goal that has > been satisfied for about a decade.) > > By design, nearly all GNU/Linux distributions install a mini-setup that > is almost enough to run on any server with addition of minimal packages. > In Debian, it's called debootstrap (or cdebootstrap). > > Oh and none of those minimal setups require any GUI and all are able to > load an editor (Notepad) and edit system configuration files (RegEdit) > without a GUI being necessary. > > Finally, this may interest some: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/ec_fines_microsoft_largest_ever/ > > I read somewhere about their next version of Windows Server doing just that, a base OS with components added on. Saying that though, knowing MS, it'll probably be a base OS with a GUI, SMB filesystem, web browser and all sorts of other stuff built in which can't be removed. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html