Server 2008 free

[Bozo]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx

Fun to play with

Bozo :joker:

 

[ddrueding]

Thanks for the link.

 

[sechs]

For a moment there, I actually thought that Microsoft might be giving away Server 2008 in order to spur adoption....

 

[Santilli]

Have enterprise up on my laptop. Fairly snappy. A bunch of basic software, like dictionaries, won't install. Driver problems for scanner, screen, and no dual monitor support. Password security is a real problem. Requires a serious amount of typing for a password, but, on the otherhand don't have to restart it very often. Can't remember how to turn off event sign off, and, 'enhanced internet' settings come standard, and take a while to turn off.

 

[Mercutio]

That's 2003, Greg. 2008 is an enormous pile of suck that takes all the worst parts of Vista and combines them with all the drawbacks of Server.

 

[Santilli]

That's 2003, Greg. 2008 is an enormous pile of suck that takes all the worst parts of Vista and combines them with all the drawbacks of Server.

Actually, it's Windows 2008 enterprise, that I don't trust on anything but a laptop, but, I agree with you. 2003 seems to work fairly well, except for games.

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[MaxBurn]

Question: Is there a free or trial virtulization software that this will work under?

I want to give server 2008 a try with our software to determine if it works or not (not just take mfg's "it should work") but don't want to dedicate a machine multiple boot etc to try it.

Edit: looks like VMware is free too, will give that a try. Never done something like this before.

 

[Bozo]

You can download Server 2008 and use it for 60 days.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/try-it.aspx

Hyper-V download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4B-63C8-4424-A738-BADED34D24ED&displaylang=en

A better link for Server 2008:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx

Bozo :joker:

 

[MaxBurn]

Thanks. Actually I am damn impressed. Never used VMware before and it took a while to figure out the install VMware tools to get drivers but after that it was just easy. Fast too, server 2008 the eval link above anyway, installs very quick. I think I had desktop in under 10 minutes.

Didn't play around with 2008 too much at first but I will tomorrow, more interested in the immediate thing with our software compatibility.

 

[MaxBurn]

Thanks. Actually I am damn impressed. Never used VMware before and it took a while to figure out the install VMware tools to get drivers but after that it was just easy. Fast too, server 2008 the eval link above anyway, installs very quick. I think I had desktop in under 10 minutes.

Didn't play around with 2008 too much at first but I will tomorrow, more interested in the immediate thing with our software compatibility.

 

[Santilli]

Keep in mind, if you load the 2008 on a disk with Linux, the disk defragger will totally screw your entire disk, and, you get to start over.

Does something to grub...

 

[Mercutio]

Server 2008 works OK on my Thinkpad, but the couple servers I have are both mysteriously slow for interactive tasks; way WAY moreso than would be suggested by the "adjust this server for background processes" setting would indicate.

I don't get the feeling that it's really running any faster than Vista does on my notebook, which is quite a bit different from Server 2003 vs. XP.