Goodsounds;440566 Wrote: > I'd venture to speculate two truths - > > 1. The VAST majority of SB owners run SC on windows machines without > ever having a performance or reliability issue or penalty for doing so > > 2. Linux users are very overrepresented in these forums, and their > voices could lead one to think that linux has other than a marginal and > numerically irrelevant home PC presence. But all the stats I've seen > indicate that linux use is not growing outside of server rooms, and that > trend has been constant over the years.
My experience, which I think is worth every penny that you paid for it: When I started out, I was running SqueezeCenter on a $1000 Windows XP machine with a gig of RAM. I no longer remember the specs, but it was as powerful as I needed and I never would have replaced it if the onboard video card didn't start causing spontaneous reboots. Anyway, that machine was running SqueezeCenter, Firefly (for a since-dead Roku), a web server and an e-mail server. In addition, it was my normal web-browsing and mail-reading and all-around general-purpose computer. What I found was that SqueezeCenter would run OK most of the time...then I'd hit a point where the music would stutter and absolutely nothing but a reboot would ever fix it. Then Fry's briefly sold a very cheap $149 desktop that was pretty non-powerful and came with Linspire. I bought one and replaced Linspire with Ubuntu. I transferred over all the server functions except mail, so the cruddy little underpowered machine was running SqueezeCenter, Firefly and Apache. It's been incredibly stable...though, to be fair, because it's such an underpowered machine and generally just used as a server, I don't really try to do much day-to-day stuff with it. I have been able on at least two different occasions to overload it to the point where the music would stutter, but unlike with Windows, all I had to do was stop taxing it and everything smoothed out again. Having said all that, I do usually find the web interface to be slow. I don't know how much of that is just inherent to SqueezeCenter and how much is due to the dinky computer. Either way, it's a minor complaint. -- atrocity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65585 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
