On Dec 30, 2007 12:26 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kam Leo wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2007 7:25 AM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Kam Leo wrote: > >> > >>> Why not? IIS has been available for Windows 2000/XP Pro for a long time. > >> > >> Perhaps I said that incorrectly. > >> > >> "I would not expect a Windows XP Home/PRO computer to be a server > >> installation for example." because it is not normally done that way. > >> Installing ISS on Windows XP Home can be done but it not supported > >> because ISS is not included on the XP Home install disk. You have to use > >> the ISS from Windows 2000. > >> > >> ISS can be added after a normal install of Windows XP PRO and is > >> included on the XP PRO install disk. The ISS from Windows XP Pro will > >> not work with XP Home. > > > > What is normally done? Apache, Samba and a whole host of other > > applications are not installed and/or enabled by default, either. > > > I really don't know what is normally done. But since XP PRO is a > *desktop* install I seriously doubt that "Apache, Samba and a whole host > of other applications" would be installed at all let alone by default. > Home is a stripped down PRO so I would think, even more, that these > would not be defaults. > > If I wanted a Windows server I would use Windows 2003 which *is* a server. > > As for Linux? If I wanted a server I would install RHEL or CentOS or one > of several other Linux server installations. I would *not* try to run a > Linux server system with Fedora. It changes too quickly and too often to > bother with in the long run. Thirteen months of support before EOL > compared to 3/4 years is a no brainer. > > > > > How did XP Home get into this conversation? > > XP Home and XP PRO are related. Home is XP without the office networking > stuff. Just what the name implies. XP for use by a home user. And you > mentioned it. Look about at your quoted section. > > David Thanks for the diversion. You remind me of a salesman trying to up-sale a customer a back hoe when all he needs to get the job done is a shovel.
