Extra Box

[mikl730]

Hey what do u think i should run on my extra computer its 500 mhz 512 ram and a 10 gig hdd i got it running fedoria core 2 and seti@home it seems kind of a waste. The rest of the computers in my house are all windows xp. I got samba set up on it to backup my files but thats about it. Got any ideas what i can run on it to make it more usefull to me and my familly.

[foolish]

It might be a tad too slow, but with all that ram it might be a fairly decent media center box. If you get yourself one of them tv-in cards as well, you have yourself your very own home-made almost-TiVo.

Look at the mythTV project: www.mythtv.org

And have a look at this guide: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/

[crackers]

Heck, with those specs (except for the disk space), it would be a pretty rockin' server of all kinds:

Extra firewall/router
HTTP server
Wiki/Content management system
Jukebox (distributed media files read from the SMB mounts?)
Mail server
etc.

[telmo]

YEP! Crackers is right! Try a smoothwall on it!

[mikl730]

i got smooth wall on it. Hey cant i use itunes for like a jukebox thing has anyone tried that before?

[mikl730]

It might be a tad too slow, but with all that ram it might be a fairly decent media center box. If you get yourself one of them tv-in cards as well, you have yourself your very own home-made almost-TiVo.

Look at the mythTV project: www.mythtv.org

And have a look at this guide: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/

I have this tuner card http://www.aver.com/products/tvtuner_AVerTV_studio.shtml could i use that with mythtv?

[foolish]

I have this tuner card http://www.aver.com/products/tvtuner_AVerTV_studio.shtml could i use that with mythtv?

I wouldn't know. Sorry. Try the linuxquestions.org hcl: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php

[mikl730]

anyone got any ideas for like a media server any programs for that besides just a file server

[cscheng]

http://www.videolan.org
http://www.shoutcast.com (only music)