Re: Linux or BSD alternative to Windows Home Server

Douglas,

1. I did not revert quickly. I used Gentoo for approximately 1 year,
and then spent some time using both systems. I simply could not get X
working with my graphics card (32MB ATI Radeon Mobility)...there were
numerous forums dedicated to this on the Gentoo Forums list, and for
some people it worked, but not everyone could get it set up. Xfree86
had problems with that graphics card. Btw, I did get Xfree86 to
compile and setup properly on my desktop, which had a 64MB Nvidia
GeForce2, along with a WM.

In any event, I got other things set up fine, and used Vim for quite a
long time for my note-taking (I also use it on Windows; I have some
stand-alone ports, and also Cygwin; the "rename" command is incredibly
useful whenever I need to rename 100 files in batch, e.g., change DSC1
to "Picture 1").

2. Re setting up X on my headless server, as it can be forwarded, can
it be forwarded to a Windows computer?

3. Virtualization, such as VM Ware, only works if you have Xfree86 up
and working, along with a desktop or window manager. I couldn't get
that up and running. In any event, even if I could, I'd then be
running it v. slowly (Excel / Word is already slow enough), and using
lots of space for a dual boot. I didn't have that much HD space.

4. Re giving up on "freedom", I don't think there's a categorical
difference between using a little bit of proprietary software from
within a largely Free (GPL & BSD) system vs. using a significant
amount of Free software (e.g., Firefox) from within a proprietary
system, which is what i do now. Anyways, the drivers for my Radeon GPU
were proprietary to begin with.

.

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