Michael Herger wrote:
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on a small lightweight distro to run
>> slimserver, but also run all the different plugings including alienbbc
>> with relative ease?
> 
> Are you going to store your collection inside the VM (on virtual disks) or  
> will you mount an external drive/share to the VM?

Probably have mount it on the guest os. This will mean I only maintain 
one backup strategy.

> 
> I'm currently tending towards CentOS for lean, but still _universal_ Linux  
> distros. It's not bleeding edge, but stable.

Will take a look, thanks.

> 
> FreeNAS/SlimNAS might soon be an option (I'm currently working on mplayer  
> to allow running AlienBBC on it). But currently it probably is too memory  
> hungry as it can't swap yet. This should be possible with the latest  
> developpers release, but is not stable, yet.

This looks small and snappy! I could give it 512mb of 'memory' from 
vmware, and vmware will swap that out.

_______________________________________________
unix mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix

Reply via email to