running w7 as limited

[gore]

Well yes Gore technically ...although the system file structure\user profile environment did change in 2000....and XP is still very similar again.

I know; You've known me for like, years, and probably haven't heard me say more than once or twice anything bad about the NT line. I think I made a joke about how Microsoft once had their Windows NT product web site's documentation that you should reboot every 6 months or so to prevent memory leaks and so on. I made a joke about it.

And I probably, knowing me, bitched about how that guy from VMS was working on the Windows NT team. Being a Unix based elitist, I'm required by "haxor law" to hate them VMS is actually a swear word in our house. If I say to my Wife "Oh VMS that" She's like almost mad because it's considered an insult in my house. She hates VMS a lot.

[/QUOTE]I am still fairly new to windows 7...but so far love what I have seen separating the user admin permissions from the system admin is a good start......and the user profile structure has changed..[/QUOTE]

Yea, I like that too. I think I used to talk about a feature like this on here. I'd have to look, but in more than one thread, I know I brought up in a bunch of those "My OS is better than YOUR OS" threads, how Windows would REALLY benefit from this, and didn't have it. And now it does.

It's one of the things I Love about Windows 7! I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit installed on this machine on a partition, with Slackware on the other. Oddly enough, I boot into Windows 7 more than I do Slackware, which, it's usually the other way around. My set up has changed quite a bit now, and this is what I'm now running:

My Laptop is running PC-BSD. No dual boot, just that.
My FTP / SSH Server, is running Slackware 12
A Dell Desktop I have, is running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE.
My old FreeBSD box died on me, and I can't get a new Power Supply for a while.
My old test machine, which dual booted FreeBSD and Slackware, also had the same problem.
My Compaq, which ran Slackware sometimes, Mandriva sometimes, and BSD, currently needs some new cooling. It's overheating. AMD Athlon XP 2600+ after all.
My Wife's old machine, is running XP as a test install. It's got services set up on it to toy with, but will probably not stay that way.
My Wife's other Desktop, also has XP, but won't stay that way. Once we have a new monitor for it, it'll run BSD.
My Wife's Laptop, is running XP because my Mom needed to borrow it when Her machine stopped working, but it'll probably go back to SUSE or Slackware, or BSD.
My Wife's new Desktop, is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

Quite a difference. But it's nice.

Currently shopping new server hardware \software ....2011 SBS...which I think is the 2008R2 version with all the bells and whistles.....which is W7 with server services ...

Last time I used a Windows Server, was Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I liked it, as it was really fast, for Windows, and decently stable, I couldn't figure out why it had a media player installed.... Especially one that's prone to security problems.... I can see them wanting it available, no problem at all, but default install using Windows Media Player, I thought that was stupid.

I'd recommend Sun Servers to you, but Oracle has been pissing all over those. Alphas and SGIs are still the **** though.

Are you nearly as confused as me??

MLF

Nope, not confused. Unless you meant something else by that. You're looking for Servers, and you think that that version is based on Windows 7 with Services on it. As far as I know, that's 100% accurate.