Replying to various points here: -- Webmin might be a start, it certainly has a whole bunch of modules written for it, so the chances are good, that someone can automate some system task using it, e.g. running the update commands that Debian uses (apt-get) via Web (I am using the Debian package for Slim at the moment). -- As far as transferring music goes, I find copying from DVD fine as regards speed, although I could use FTP if I wanted. However, since my SlimServer is sitting in my DMZ (because it talks to a wireless router), FTP transfer through a firewall is not as fast as loading off a DVD is, so that's the main reason I don't. -- And, believe me, TV out on the EPIA V8000 is OK as long as you don't want to look at the display for more than about 3 minutes :=) Apparently the later boards are better - YMMV. The one I have is certainly no substitute for a proper display somewhere. But then again, using Linux, I can just log in over the network to a graphical desktop on the music server, so I don't need a display, except when doing tricky things like kernel upgrades or whatever. (The equivalent of this under Windows would be running VNC on both.)
I'll probably go the USB drive route at some point, but in terms of hard drive tweaks, I'm more interested in getting the current box running on RAID. I think I can squeeze another drive in there somewhere... Cheers, Ed -- nalfeshnee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nalfeshnee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5523 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23933 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
