i need a "do not feed the ubuntu troll" icon
i on the other hand have found it most handly.
- running squeezeserver to feed its stored MP3's around the house to
suitably equiped rooms,
- being a network store for my media centre's recorded TV,
- automagically managing my disks with online invisable data mirroring across drives, dependent on what i want to mirror.
- able to wake up, then wake up other machines on the network, back them up, put them back to sleep again, and goto sleep.
- has a preconfigured service to provide a website to the outside world for your users to access files on the homeserver, and connection permitting, to remote desktop over the web onto it's console and or other connected machines on its network.
- being a NAS device that can actually get 40+MB/s over gigabit network....
i could carry on. but i actually like to spend my time using the resources and devices i have at my disposal, rather than balls deep in kernal code trying to get the thing to give me a display or even basic network capabilities. never mind automated systems management.
so excuse me if i pass by the option of the black and white beaked one, to do all that homeserver provides.