Mark-
I'd definitely go with Linux for the server. It's more stable. It runs slimserver better. It's open-source, just like slimserver. 'nuff said. Which Linux distro is another Q, but most should do the job equally well. I use Fedora Core 3, which is aggravating for other reasons, but does the slimserver work just dandy. If I had to start fresh today, I'd be eyeing Gentoo, Suse, or Mandrake, in that order.
Softsqueeze I've never had work properly on a Linux machine. For this I blame Java, the "cross-platform" language (he says with a sneer). On WinXP, Softsqueeze runs very nicely.
cheers, #!/ben
p.s. here's an excerpt from interview with Dean Blackletter of SlimDevices a couple of years ago (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/12/05/slimp3.html):
What issues did you have to face when considering how to distribute a Perl-based consumer application, and how did you approach them?
Distributing a Perl application on the traditional Unix-like platforms (BSD, Solaris, Linux) is easy. Things got a bit harder on Mac OS X, since command-line solutions aren't acceptable to Mac users. Initially, I wrote a simple graphical application (in AppleScript!) that acted as a launcher for our server software, but this was really not good enough for Mac users. One of our Open Source contributors, Dave Nanian, came to the rescue and built us a System Preferences pane and installer application that work as they should on a Mac.
Windows is the hardest platform for us to support. Luckily we had another Open Source contributor, Sam Saffron, who decided that building a shell application for the server software would be a great way to learn MFC, and he contributed a nice little app for this. Another contributor, Chris Eastwood, put together an installer for us. But it was the fine folks at ActiveState with their Perl Dev Kit that really made it possible for us to release on Windows with their PerlApp (for making Perl-based .exe files) and PerlSvc (for making Perl-based Windows Services).
Even with all this help, Perl on Windows is different enough in subtle ways to make it a real pain to maintain. Maybe if we had more hardcore in-house Windows experience things would be easier, but it's a struggle.
MarkJ wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am looking for suggestions on how to use my hardware in a slimserver/softsqueeze environment. I have an Athlon 950Mhz that will be a server and a few intel 600Mhz systems that will run softsqueeze. Would I be better off (better resource usage/faster performance) using them as windows or linux or a combination of both? I would prefer to use linux on the server but I'm open to suggestions. Thank you very much for your feedback.
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