fast eddie wrote: > I have been using my office pc running XP as my music server for my SB3 > for a few months hassle free but I have just got hold of a second pc > and was considering having a go at putting a Linux distro on it and > then using that as the server.
Good idea :-) > As a complete Linux novice I am after some advice. That's what we are here for. But first, while you are a Linux novice, how technical is your use of Windows? And do you use the CMD shell on Windows? While all good Linux have graphical admin controls, some things just take a some shell commands, especially if there are issues. > I was wondering if anyone here had used these instructions for the > installation and if so was it straight forward? I haven't, but I've done in on many versions of Mandrake/Mandriva. The basics are nearly always the same. > I know that this has been asked so many times in the past but is Clark > Connect the best one for a complete novice or is FC3 suitable? Fedora Core 3 is pretty old. The current version is Core 6. While the basic instructions are most likely the same, some thing always change with new versions. I used to recommend Mandriva for a good first distro, but these days, Ubuntu is getting all the raves. You can install the slimserver on anything. The most important criteria, IMHO, is use a distro that one of your beer drinking buddies uses, so you can buy them a beer and get free consulting. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
