On 10/05/2009 12:38 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > 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 ? Definitely max out the RAM. Memory's cheap and it helps a LOT. > I would like to run Fedora 11 on it. (What else ?) Boot init 3 ? Run > init level 5 for doing administration ? Runlevel 3 and then ssh -X into it for admin with GUI tools if you need 'em. > 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 ? Totally depends on what your criteria for success is. If you don't mind that laptops typically have God-awful slow drives you should be fine. Instead of using a USB drive I would spring for an eSATA PCMCIA card and use eSATA. It's much faster. Thomas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
