Another Reason Why I Run Linux At Home

I admit it. I am cheap.

These numbers don’t mix with my poor mans mentality.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/archive/2007/11/20/windows-server-2008-prices-announced.aspx

How about a nice free version of the Web Server edition or something?

Windows Server 2003 had a web version that was cheap. I don’t see an equivalent here.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx

What in the world are they thinking with the “without Hyper-V” versions? Talk about confusing.

Unfortunately the state of the Xen Hypervisor on my favorite Linux isn’t that great.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen

That is a few revs back. But I am pretty sure that OpenSUSE has great OOTB Xen support. So no “without Hyper-V” edition here.