For what it's worth, here are my experiences. Most people seem to be thinking about running either Windows XP/2000 or Linux. It seems to me that the lightest footprint of them all is FreeBSD. I'm running Slimserver on a low-powered FreeBSD system: 500MHz AMD K6/2 CPU 196MB PC66 SDRAM 400GB Seagate Barracuda drive.
This is dedicated purely to Slimserver. RAM doesn't seem to be a problem. Of the 196MB on the system, only about 50MB is actually in use. My music library is exclusively FLAC, currently about 10,000 songs. I'm using just one SB2, wired on a 100Mbs LAN. Performance of the web interface is OK but not "snappy". Using the SB2 via the remote is pretty good. Bringing up "Browse Artists" takes about 1 or 2 seconds. Before building this FreeBSD system, I initially ran Slimserver on the household Win2000 server (a 533MHz mini-ITX box with 256MB PC133 SDRAM). It was definitely much less responsive, but still not that bad. And considering the server was also running email/printers/web server/Oracle database, I think it shows that Slimserver doesn't need lots of horsepower. -- cliveb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
