Osamede wrote: >> You sure you want LTS? > As far as I know LTS version means the most stable version with the > most users and support. Or is that not true.
I'd use a different definition. LTS means that it will be supported and patched for a long time. If you are running ay 8.10, then after a while, probably a year, there will be no more patches. By definition, versions are "stable" in that there is no more software development made for it after release. Linux distros never (or hardly ever) do feature enhancements is a patch, unlike Windows Service Packs that often include new features. Nearly all of the patches for LTS versions are security fixes. If your SqueezeCenter is internal to your house, they are much less interesting. If your box is public, then yes, you need to keep up with the security patches. > As for the Fedora or vortexbox, would that be a bigger community than > Ubuntu? I don't know which is "bigger". Both Fedora and Ubuntu have very active communities. Since vortxbox is fedora, I'm not sure that the question is important or useful. > but I would have to pay for it. So if I use Linux then I want to be > using a Linux where finding answers to questions are easy. > > Or am I missing something? Once you get it up and working, you are really done. I ran my early SlimServer (since renamed to SqueezeCenter) on a old PC with Mandriva that was literally untouched for 16+ months. Never down, never touched. Just worked. My current system, which is Debian, has been nearly as reliable, but I'm doing beta testing of the server code, so I have to mess with it more. The reality is that picking a distro is not all that important. You can change it if you don't like it. And most of what you learn about how to administer it will carry over from one brand to the next. I do strongly recommend that you have two disks in the server, a modest one for the OS and another for your music. That way, you can change the OS disk without touching your music. With 1TB disk under $100, the 200GMB or so disk for the OS can be nearly free. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
