Linux file-server?

[Mini-Me]

Hi.


I'm THINKING about building a file-server for my mediaplayer PC.
I thought that Linux would be good for this.

Does anyone have any recommendations on a Linux distro, or is pretty much any distro OK for this kind of thing?

Would need to run on cheap old hardware, such as a P3.

[mjc]

Umm....my pref would probably be a stripped down Slack 12, running with one of the lightweight window managers instead of KDE (or no GUI at all)...but just about any one would do.

http://www.nick-andrew.net/Documents...g-server.shtml

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11...in-45-minutes/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8590

[Mini-Me]

Thanks again, MJC!!!!


Will check these links out...

[Paul Komski]

I wonder if dyne:bolic would be of interest to you as a media-oriented distro?

dyne:bolic wiki

[Mini-Me]

I did look at Dyne at one point, but it was hard to drive, and the media applications seemed unstable. Perhaps it just did not like the taste of the hardware I was using at the time I tinkered with this distro...