> Hardware and software support doesn't really matter for a server.
 > All the server administrator will care about is how many HTTP,
 > netbios, NFS, et cetra, connections the OS can juggle without losing
 > speed.  It's not a problem if the OS only supports two currently
 > produced video cards.  As for applications, all that matters are the
 > server daemons.

      I think you over simplified things some.  It DOES matter what
hardware and software support is available.  How well is your server going to
support clients if you can't install up-to-date SCSI controllers or NICs? 
Granted, you don't have to support sound cards and 3D video or HP's flavor of
the day printers.
      And how long do you think Apache will be maintained if all of us
home users have to move on to something else?  I see an awful lot of familiar
names over in the Linux echo.

-ll

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