Hi, it's been a while since did much with Linux but just recently did the following and was very happy with the results:
1) Blew away XP Pro on my SBS server machine and installed VortexBox 1.1. This took very little time to do, and has performed flawlessly. As a nice bonus, scan times were cut in half compared to XP and I'll never have to worry about conflicts with the virus scanner again. I also noticed the Web UI was quite a bit faster than before, e.g., when browsing the music library. This is on a very old machine with only 512MB RAM. 2) Put Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) on my wife's 3-year-old Dell Inspiron laptop, which I upgraded with a SSD. This thing just flies; boots in about 10s, and I can get Firefox open and displaying a web page within about 15 seconds from a cold boot. Everything just seemed to work without configuration hassles, including sound, WiFi and most amazingly the BT A2DP profile to my Sony wireless headphones. My network printers were discovered automatically and could be set up with a couple of clicks. I'm actually planning on keeping this as my main laptop for leisure use since it is just so fluid and quick to use. 3) Compiled Squeezeplay from the SVN 7.5 trunk sources using the steps suggested here: http://www.jfwhome.com/2009/11/22/compiling-squeezeplay-on-linux-ubuntu-amd64/ So, now I have a fully functioning Squeezeplay on my Linux laptop, that functions with local sound and even has WOL working (when I start Squeezeplay, it wakes up my SBS if it is not already on). I guess I'm just happy to find how much easier this stuff is to do than I can recall from the past. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75346 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
