jimbof;433122 Wrote: > Actually thats an excellent idea - you can certainly whack samba and > squeezeserver on in no time at all if thats all you want/need. I'll > have a think about how to structure it around the rest of the pages. > Maybe a crash course linked to off the front page, with links to other > bits if you need more details. I'd deliberatly avoided xwindows and vnc > in all its forms - on a headless server it seemed a bit pointless - but > then I'm quite happy to hack around on the command line. I'll have a > play in virtual box and see how easy it is to get gnome going over vnc > and (assuming it is easy!) add that in too. The CentOS desktop is > definately nothing to write home about though! > > Other things I may play with are jinzora or zina, openDB, some sort of > torrent client and proper email with postfix. I am also tempted to give > Debian a whirl and see how different it is and if it's possible to > maintain two variations of instructions - I have ubuntu on a couple of > pc's, but I've not really experimented with the server edition, or > normal debian.
I'm stoked on Mint.. It works well for me and for a noob, it is windowsy enough to find my way around. Ultra VNC 'just works' out of the box with no software added to the actual server. Wow. The hardest thing for me was sorting out Samba. That shows you my level of skill! In think many punters might value that information on an informative source like the blog you've written. Something like 'even for people with no linux experience, this is not hard with some distributions of linux (you may or may not wish to name them, I don't know the protocols).. With a few tweaks, you can easily network with your windows machines for transferring newly ripped music or for a little extra storage for your happy-snaps. Using the web interface of Squeezecenter, you can control all your players without ever being near the server - spend the screen money on CDs!'. I am SURE many more people would save money, carbon and hardware if they first hit something really user friendly, with, as you say, links for 'pro' users. Anything with command line just scares me off. I tried really hard to learn some programming languages, and it just isn't for me. Like piano or guitar, some people just. dont. get. it. Again, great resource. Wish I'd seen the ITX one and your outstanding info on RAID before I got started. I might just have gone the extra step and 'built'. Instead I'm taking on a new project - shoehorning the biggest 2.5" HDD I can find into my EEEbox. Wish me luck. -- Dingostrategy Lounge: SB3 + Genelec 6010A | Kitchen: SB3 + $80 bookshelf stereo. Top shelf gear. | Bedroom/Terrace - Boom | Headless Asus EEE Box & Linux Mint | iPod touch/iPeng "Dear Mother, kindly forward underwear, DAC and those Jensen's I bought offa ebay" '[email protected]' (http://www.last.fm/user/DingoStrategy/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dingostrategy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64321 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
