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Old 10-04-2011
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No not an everyday OS.

its a OS designed for software storage control (like an unraid server) handles backing up windows OS's on the network, can do standard windows SMB shares as well as multicasting and streaming. There are some addons that will do other things (like recording TV shows if you install a tuner)

But there is no desktop with it, everything that can be done physically on the computer can also be done via webbrowser from any netowrked PC.

Pretty sure there is some more to it, but I have not looked at it in a long time.

I just windows for my home servers, it can do most of the stuff Home server can, just without the back up stuff, and I hack the RDP to allow concurrent sessions.
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