SulphurSouls Wrote: > I find that I have enough trouble working with Linux somedays, dont know > if FREEBSD would just add even more complexity to it, I dont have the > time to research and play around with things like I used to. On the > Windows 2000 server, did you have any issues with songs cutting out > etc? As others have pointed out, FreeBSD seems simpler than Linux. 15 years back I worked on System V Unix a lot, but over the last several years I've been working exclusively on Windows, and looking at the *nix options FreeBSD seemed much less daunting than Linux. The minimal installation just worked out of the box, and the ports collection is very nicely set up - no problems at all. But if you're already comfortable with Linux then I guess it makes sense to stick with that.
As for running Slimserver on Win2000, I never had any cut outs. (Well, once I was alarmed by some very bad break-up, then remembered that I was also writing a DVD at 4x over the network from the same hard drive on the server at the same time!). The only problem I ever had was in the early days playing Ogg Vorbis - by default it gets transcoded to FLAC, which caused huge latency getting any song started. I switched it over to just decode to WAV and it was fine. But since then I've switched over to native FLAC anyway. -- cliveb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
