Got a hold of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise! *Now with Pics!*

[Yossarian]

don't bother, he just enjoys being a colossal prick 24/7.

 

[nan0bug]

2k3 is great. BTW you can get themes on it. Check the guide on neowin, it should tell you how to go about doing it (I forget the name of the exact DLL file you need to replace).

Heres proof that you can make Win2k3 look good

 

[AkumaX]

haha, you're using my trillian skin 😛

 

[anxman69]

I thought I would add my two cents.

I had installed this at the beginning of the summer and since my PC is mainly a workstation, and not a server, I configured it as such.

Installed my sound card, multimedia drivers, directx, along with a slew of consumer ready apps.

The bulletproof server that it was, quickly turned into a nightmare of a workstation. It was more unstable than an XP machine, and despite being *slightly* faster, why put up w/ instability?

My recommendation is to stay away from this as a workstation OS and stick with 2k or XP.

Also, remote desktop support is horrible on it.

-Ankur

 

[Shawn]

Unstable? Really? Hmm.... well haven't had any problems yet but I've only had it running about 8 hours or so. I'll report back if I find any instability.

 

[jinduy]

my school's giving me windows 2003 server standard edition for free...what's the difference between this one and the enterprise one? is it worth installing if i'm probably not going to run a server?

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Originally posted by: jinduy
my school's giving me windows 2003 server standard edition for free...what's the difference between this one and the enterprise one? is it worth installing if i'm probably not going to run a server?

Enterprise Edition has more <Server> features - support for more CPUs and more RAM, amongst other things. It's a server OS. Do not install it for desktop use. I'm not going to bother arguing the point - it should simply not be used as a desktop OS, free trial or otherwise.

 

[Mrburns2007]

I installed 2003 on one computer just for fun and cause I was using it as a server with other machines. It was pretty fast and stable, I didn't modify to much on though.

It is intended to be a server OS so I can see it may get buggy using it as a workstation.

 

[Sideswipe001]

It works well as a server for me.

I've got 2K3 Standard running my exchange/ftp/file sharing server at home, and I'm quite happy with it. It's quite a bit more "locked down" by defaut than 2000 is.

I wouldn't trust running it as a desktop at this point. It simply doesn't seem to be set up to run as one.

 

[Polishwonder74]

Oh wow jinduy,

What school are you at?

I just finaggled me a copy of 2003 server *cough* and I'm itching to throw it on a machine and mess around with it.