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)

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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