Ask HN: Is there a cut-down/minimal version of Windows for running on servers?

Posted by andrewstuart on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:44AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is there a cut-down/minimal version of Windows for running on servers with the absolute minimum unneeded process running?

I want to run some Window code with the absolute minimum additional processes consuming compute cycles.

Does such a version of Windows exist?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a cut-down/minimal version of Windows fo... by boulos on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:00AM (#31067604)

There was Windows Server Nano, but now it's a Container "OS" only? [1]

Edit: ahh Server Core is probably what you're looking for as the base OS [2].

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a cut-down/minimal version of Windows fo... by coolhoody on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:41AM (#31067781)

W7 or W10 stripped down to bones with NTLite. Their forums have various tested presets if don't have time, and can answer questions.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a cut-down/minimal version of Windows fo... by mardiyah on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:55AM (#31067579)

There're always hacker's versions on torrent sites

desktop one in mine is always from there

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