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vinhsynd

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Registered: 2010-08-05

Posts: 56

Clear OS for an integrated home server?

Ran across this reading around the internet.

http://www.clearfoundation.com/

Was wondering if anyone has used it before and their thoughts about it.

It seems like an interesting turn-key-ish solution to having an integrated home server that managed email, file sharing, webhosting in house with both linux/windows machines.

Prior to finding this I was looking at things like:

FreeNAS
Amahi
OpenFiler

and then adding the extra functionality that I wanted like webhosting, email serving, etc.

Note: There is thread from 2 months ago, but it was focused on business usage, and at the time no one seems to have tried this out.

Last edited by vinhsynd (2010-12-25 00:45:52)

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zenlord

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Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: Clear OS for an integrated home server?

Distro's like these might make it easier to get a server up and running, but that way you don't know how it works from the inside, possibly giving you problems if the provided solution lacks a feature you absolutely need.

In the end, it is just a tweaked distro with preconfigured packages. So nothing you cannot do yourself with Arch Linux.

But if you want to try it out, go ahead. Maybe it is perfect for you

vinhsynd

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Registered: 2010-08-05

Posts: 56

Re: Clear OS for an integrated home server?

I do agree that given a well designed distribution, working knowledge of how to achieve desired functionality, and a reserve of free time the end product would be more desirable than a prefab solution.

However I am deficient in two of those areas:

Experience
Time

Both of these delimit the progress of each other sadly. Leading to sad state where "what I want to do takes more time to learn than I have to accomplish what I set out towards".

Therefore while I learn, I have to look towards something good enough to stand-in for what I want in the interim.

However, the exercise of looking for stop gap measure itself can be vexing since I have to balance how much to spend looking for half measure than progressing on making it myself.

(this is what happens when I start posting after watching ghost in the shell, long monologues that don't say much but waste a fair amount time in the process thus creating an illusory feeling that something of value should have been present)

Last edited by vinhsynd (2010-12-26 06:14:39)

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