I'm running a PII 400 MHz PC with Fedora 6. It works perfectly with slimserver and over 1,000,000 Flac tracks. It's headless (no monitor) so I don't have the overhead of running a graphical interface.
If you're new to Linux, I recommend Ubuntu because it just works out of the box with minimal fuss. If you're interested in getting down and dirty with Linux and learning a few things, Fedora will give you many chances to trouble shoot (i.e. you need to tweak a few things before getting slimserver to work). Lastly, if you REALLY want to know Linux inside and out and understand the internal working of it, then Gentoo is best bet. If you choose Gentoo though, don't expect to have your system working 100% for about a week (depending on how much time you can spend compiling packages.). It takes a great deal of time, learning and patience to get Gentoo set up perfectly but many consider this time well spent. I agree with the others, scrap RAID 0, go with RAID 5 or 1. Overall, if you don't want a monitor attached, you could get away with just a Pentium 200 with 512M RAM - your proposed system is overkill (like using a jack-hammer to remove a bottle cap). -- sdonham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sdonham's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7749 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
