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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:53:47 +0800 |
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> Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> On 08/29/12 12:42, kwkhui@××××.net wrote: |
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>> > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:57:07 +0800 |
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>> > Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> >> Hi all, |
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>> >> Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro |
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>> >> for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, |
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>> >> SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be |
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>> >> working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be |
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>> >> fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, debian, |
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>> >> centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis a |
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>> >> stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu? |
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>> >> |
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>> >> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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>> >> |
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>> >> Andrew |
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>> > Well, if you are only going to need it as an NAS, why not try |
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>> > FreeNAS? OK, its kernel is BSD rather than Linux, but that |
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>> > shouldn't be a problem. |
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>> > |
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>> > Kerwin. |
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>> Thanks, I'll look into that. |
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> FreeNAS comes *highly* recommended. It isn't cli driven though, it's a |
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> django framework on nginx and runs off a memory stick. Resource usage |
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> is next to nothing and it makes an awesome media server. It ships with |
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> NFS, CIFS and FTP support and has plugins for dlna, firefly and |
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> transmission. With the benefit that you don't have to build any of it, |
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> write a 160M image to a memory stick, reboot, configure storage drives |
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> and away you go. |
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> I would advise that you not use ZFS on an old machine though, ZFS likes |
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> *lots* of RAM. Rather use the FreeBSD default of UFS. |
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> The screenshot is one of mine, a media server running on an HP |
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> Proliant miniserver. No matter what I throw at that thing, it just |
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> keeps laughing at me and asking if that's all I got.... |
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I will concur that FreeNAS is a good fileserving platform. It's very |
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probable I'll use it for my storage needs once I've got the time and |
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coin to assemble a storage box after moving+silly season. |
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