[Tfug] home media server

[Matthew Shucker]

On Nov 22, 2007 11:43 PM, daniel galaska <galaskadaniel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hello all --
>
> so, i have rather fortuitously come into an old e-machine. the specs are
> not marvelous (700 mhz pIII, 256 ram), but i was thinking that it might do
> well as a file server. i would use it primarily for media, but backing up
> files would also be part of its job. i haven't done much research yet, but
> was wondering if there were any suggestions for open source software that
> could turn it into a media server. i would like to be able to have access to
> my media (and be able to play it -- audio and video) from remote locations.
>
> any suggestions?


Check out http://www.freenas.org if you just want a big file space that's
easy to manage and connect to from anything (if you don't want to do
anything else from the box).