My first post - hope it is of interest to someone - Based on info from this site, plus info gleaned off a few others, I took the plunge and ordered a Kuro-BoxHG from revogear.com. Although I've never used Linux, I managed to install a drive, get it set-up, change the web interface to English, install Perl 5.8.5 ( I think another version came with it, but the update was extremely simple ) and then install slimserver ( both from TAR files I downloaded from the "Install Slimserver on a Linkstation" website ), copied all my MP3s from my slimserver at work and actually got it all running. It took a week or so, but most of that time was reading "Linux for Beginners" websites since the installation sites seemed to assume you would know how to copy files and change directories and such.
Now that it is actually running, I've ordered 2 new SB3s for home, and I can't wait for them to get here. I have an SB2 in my store, and have gotten to liking it so much I had to get one (or 2?) for at home. I don't know anything about performance, but slimserver seems to run and be about as responsive as it is at the store running on a Windows SBS Server 2003 P4 2.8. I've got about 80gigs of MP3s on line. My only project left right now is figure out how to get Slimserver to start automatically if it ever reboots. Then I start re-ripping all my CDs as either LAME or FLAC - still studying all the posts about that - The Kuro-Box is extremely small, quiet, and with a 300 gig drive I put it together for under $300. Time will tell, but right now its as great as my SB2, but hopefully not as great as my SB3s will be! -- bolfings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bolfings's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4440 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17968 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
