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Basicaly, the main advantage is less usage of resources. if you are going to administer the server remotely, you just don't need GUI to hog RAM or CPU. Also, the boot up time is smaller and it could be less vulnerable to bugs or malicios code.
Yes the Core mode of Windows2008 is very usefull because it is very difficult to hack , free from virus+worm+spyware etc. and also use in case you need more attention on server2008, because it can be accessed by only a very skilled windows administrator so it is save from other user to change any setting or configuration.
Best Answer by Lvan Perak.......
but my advise go for linux..... ;-).
Your questions always good.
Yes, Core edition introduced for minimising the memory and avoiding vulnarability from gui code level.
If we are using core edition, very minimal component running server and avoiding performance leak and GUI component vulnarabilities.
with todays CPUs and RAM Sizes and technology, i think it has no use
Yep it has benifits over The GUI edition cause,
Antivirus agents,Backup agents,System management agents
My answer to this one is:
Microsoft windows just want to pretend to be a linux. A hack-free OS from MS.
There are many Benefits, including the following:•Greater stability. Because a Server Core installation has fewer running processes and services than a Full installation, the overall stability of Server Core is greater. Fewer things can go wrong, and fewer settings can be configured incorrectly. •Simplified management. Because there are fewer things to manage on a Server Core installation, it's easier to configure and support a Server Core installation than a Full one—once you get the hang of it. •Reduced maintenance. Because Server Core has fewer binaries than a Full installation, there's less to maintain. For example, fewer hot fixes and security updates need to be applied to a Server Core installation. Microsoft analyzed the binaries included in Server Core and the patches released for Windows Server2000 and Windows Server2003 and found that if a Server Core installation option had been available for Windows Server2000, approximately60 percent of the patches required would have been eliminated, while for Windows Server2003, about40 percent of them would have. •Reduced memory and disk requirements. A Server Core installation on x86 architecture, with no roles or optional components installed and running at idle, has a memory footprint of about180 megabytes (MB), compared to about310 MB for a similarly equipped Full installation of the same edition. Disk space needs differ even more—a base Server Core installation needs only about1.6 gigabytes (GB) of disk space compared to7.6 GB for an equivalent Full installation. Of course, that doesn't account for the paging files and disk space needed to archive old versions of binaries when software updates are applied. See Chapter2 for more information concerning the hardware requirements for installing Server Core. •Reduced attack surface. Because Server Core has fewer system services running on it than a Full installation does, there's less attack surface (that is, fewer possible vectors for malicious attacks on the server). This means that a Server Core installation is more secure than a similarly configured Full installation.
The main advantages of Server core are:
- No need for extra hardware resources
- Less need of Windows Updates
- More secure as it has less functions and roles.
