There are many easy to use options to install an LMS server. The plug computer or the unsupported NAS experience (or other choice of bizarre hardware ) are hardly the typical LMS server experience .
Usually folks clicks the windows installer and be happy or use a NAS with a supported LMS package and install that in a user friendly way provided by the NAS vendor . These small plug computers and many NAS boxes are not "normal" in any Linux sense either, On a Linux desktop environment it would be just as easy or easier than windows to get LMS installed . One enthusiast on this forum managed to install SBS on a router ? that was not normal :) There are many ways to get things very complex ,but to blame the squeezebox for that, weird . So some enthusiast solutions to servers are *really* geeky but thats a part of their appeal and are usually the choice of people that know such stuff or are in for a challenge to learn it. But it is not the "normal" experience . I chose an intermediate way using a HP-microserver that can run a fully supported Linux distro thats not specially hacked for the device . And i installed via yum or rpm it was dead easy to install , the geeky stuff is that it is command line only except for the web-UI's . The only snag i had was a missing perl module . Bizarre reasoning ? just because there are "geek options" you don't have to use them and they don't make the product itself more geeky or hard to use . Many products do not have any geek options at all are they better ? OT Perl modules ? why the error message thats you must use an elaborate build script and compile your own ,when you in fact can just install them on most distros using yum rpm cpan whatever . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96352
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