If your primary use of the laptop is as a squeezecentre server, then I would recommend using ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10 server versions.
I have 8.10 server running on an old p2 266Mhz processor with 192M memory. This serves up the music fine but is a little slow scanning the library. I have mplayer and lame installed for additonal music formats. I use PuTTY and WinSCP to work with the server which is completely headless. I also install midnight commander (mc) to manipulate files and htop to monitor performance over SSH. With the server version I only install SSH and samba. You can use Webmin also for server management. All my music is resident on a second drive on the PC. I previously ran Clarke Connect on this PC but I am convinced that the Ubuntu server is better and more straightforward to set up. -- Ramage T5500 1.6GHz, SC 7.2-22869 Win Vista, Alien 2.0 P4 2.6GHz, SC 7.3-23688 WinXP, Alien 2.2b1-7.3 P2 266MHz, ubuntu server 8.10 SC 7.3~23960 Alien 2.3b1-7.3 AMD64x2 ubuntu 8.04, SC 7.3-23960, Alien 2.3b1-7.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55334 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
