>I know this must have been asked before but I was wondering what the >prercentage is of Windows vs Linux as the OS of choice for running SS. > >I am going to take the plunge into the world of Linux soon so I was >just being curious.
I primarily run OS X and Slimserver has been trouble free from the underlying OS standpoint going back to the days when SLIMP3 was their only product. I prefer the Linux/unix/BSD based operating systems to Windows because the licensing agreements are not as onerous and I think they are more approachable in the sense that they can be tinkered with and debugged in a more consistent and straightforward manner. The default configurations, while not invulnerable, tend to have less exposure to outside attacks (particularly OpenBSD). I like OS X because I think it has the best GUI on top of a unix base. I like the Intel Apple hardware because you can run OS X, Linux, *BSDs, and Windows on it all at native speeds. I'm very interested in seeing the final VMWare virtualization product and comparing that to Parallels and being able to run multiple virtual machines on one set of hardware. My experience running a variety of OSes (Windows, unix/linux/BSD, OS X) is that Windows is the most problematic, but with the important caveat that you'll almost always do best with the OS that you know best. If you're just looking to jump in to Linux you can get good performance (including from Slimserver) from hardware that would not give good performance with XP or Vista, so you can experiment with it on an old system and keep your main system running (I infer from your post) Windows. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
