I was unable to find any SDRAM for a price I was willing to pay, and
realised I'd need a PCI ATA controller to support large drives on this
old system (can't find a BIOS update anywhere), so I've managed to find
a friend who wants it as a cheap webserver and am instead buying:
INTEL CELERON
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
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?
Thanks for
My 2Ghz linux Server with 256mb is generally stable for playing and
searching my 10k songs (FLAC), but since I use this server to also
rip/encode, plus shorewall and msec running, memory is sucked down
fast. Plus add VNC to use GRIP needless to say, it runs outta
memory. But, it's still more
Even tho Im running Mandrake 9.1 currently, I will definitely agree with
clive in that FreeBSD is a pretty light OS and if you rebuild the kernel
to minimize it to exactly what you need, it can be extremely light and
fast (I run FreeBSD as my firewall,VPN,web proxy box on a 200Mhz system
just
FreeBSD is simpler than Linux IMHO. The ports collection is very nice in
comparison to packages. Also for both OS's, when you get frustrated,
don't ever forget about Webmin (www.webmin.org)... hehe... I suppose I
should write a webmin 'module' for Slimserver. ;-)
SulphurSouls wrote:
I find
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
Thanks for all the advice guys!
I've decided to get the higher specs I suggested, as im having trouble
finding SDRAM at a price im willing to pay for it, and having to get a
seperate controller card for it as there is no BIOS update to support
large discs. Its also a system that has no real
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:43 -0700, SulphurSouls wrote:
music host. I'm also planning on using VNC for that machine, but
probably not much as the webinterface of Slimserver will take care of
most things.
My server with the SS is in my basement.
I never touch it, or at least hardly ever.
Yes I used to have a lot of this memory spare, these days I can only
find a few shops that still stock it, and they want more than the price
for DDR-3200... might have to check ebay then and beef up the machine.
What did you mean by 'it was OK'?
Reading the FAQ it states a need for 128mb of RAM,
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:01 -0700, SulphurSouls wrote:
Yes I used to have a lot of this memory spare, these days I can only
find a few shops that still stock it, and they want more than the price
for DDR-3200... might have to check ebay then and beef up the machine.
What did you mean by 'it
Did your previous system use one Squeezebox or two? did you use the web
interface much or only the remote? Did the machine do anything else at
the same time?
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SulphurSouls
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