We have a Dell 5100 laptop sitting here not doing anything. My wife got a new one a year ago. We need a media server to serve large digital images to client computers running digikam and we also want to run mediatomb to act as a server for our laptops and our uPNP capable tv. The 5100 has a Pentium 4 running at 2.66 MHz. Right now it has 256 MB of RAM, but I think I have 1 GB sitting around here for it. Plug in a new 7200 RPM 500 GB hard drive ? Run a 1 TB USB drive for more storage ? I would like to run Fedora 11 on it. (What else ?) Boot init 3 ? Run init level 5 for doing administration ? I am running the F11 Live CD on it right now. It seems to work fairly well, albeit a bit slow. I love the form factor. It would be quiet and small. Its got a monitor and a keyboard and built in battery back up, for a couple hours, anyway. We have a wireless card for it too... I could do administration on the couch instead of in some closet somewhere. Will it do the job ? I'm worried about the transcoding part of things. Our TV doesn't support many video formats but mediaTomb does transcoding so that we can watch just about anything we can store. Will it do the job ? Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
