Thursday 5 July 2007, 5:01 PM

Kraken, buried at sea. Long live Debbie!

Posted by Xwindowsjunkie

With the posting I did yesterday I hope to have buried Kraken at least in consideration as an alternative server for my backwater bay.

For a product that supposedly offers "new" features and advantages to the computer and media consuming public I was marvelously under-whelmed. The second biggest reason to use a home server, that of backup for the other systems on the local subnet, failed in my case miserably.

I doubt very much that I will bother to do a forensic postmortem simply because it was supposed to be a almost finished product and wasn't. Yes I could spend a lot of time and fix all of the problems and yes I know how to fix the backup problem. I'm not on Microsoft's payroll. If I'm going to expend that much effort, its going to be on something I OWN, from the top of the mast to the keel.

But this started out as a user test and to be entirely and brutally honest, Debian (Debbie) failed as well as Kraken (Windows Home Server). But I expected Debian (and all other Linux distros) to fail simply because the Linux programmer's universe hasn't bothered to approach the consumer market except in specific targeted devices. Nobody writing Linux applications sees anything profitable in generic Home appliances. A Home Server is still fairly general purpose and not that much different from any other desktop, NAS or computer. All of the profitable Linux appliances are specific purpose devices, set top boxes, DVR's, DVD players etc.

I'm going to continue working on and writing about Debbie simply because it does fill a need I have here for a generic file and media server. When its done I hope to be able to release the "cookbook" I used and hopefully a distro variation.

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