Media server and xubuntu

The other day my girlfriend's parent's were getting rid of some stuff and I happened to notice an old viao they were chucking that had "my new linux media server" written all over it for me. So grabbed it (as my girlfriend rolled her eyes) and I slapped a 60 gig HD i had sitting on my desk in there (more than enough for my music and pictures, that's all I'll be putting on there (I have another machine only for video, the nature of that beast is different). So I was thinking I would put Xubuntu on it, since it's only 600mhz celleron and has 128mb of ram (at first without thinking I slapped my good 'ole gutsy gibbon CD in there and when that had a clusterf*ck I realized I might have to worry about performance). I'll get that all installed, then just use some sort of remote desktop or VNC application to connect to it (so it can sit in my closet), and probably instal jinzora on it. Was just curious if anyone saw any problems with my plans before I got half way through and went "oh crap!" Xubuntu should be able to run on that, no? Anyone have any other suggestions?

 

You'll get a bunch of suggestions, mine always is Antix for a machine like that.....Zenwalk might be another.....you could just leave those on there until the machine becomes a boat anchor Take a look at Ubuntu based SymphonyOne 2008.1...ubuntu gutsy based with a very light desktop....looks pretty sweet.

 

12:15 AM of day two on this project: "F*** OLD COMPUTERS" -kicks down the stairs-

Screw it, I'm just running it all off my extra desktop, don't need another tower in my room anyway. My room stays like 10 degrees warmer because of the computers in here already, don't need another one.

 

Wolvix would have been my choice

 

it seems you're making this more complicated than you need to. you can install any distro you want. just don't install every single package available known to man. you don't even need to install the x window system (unless you want to do more than listen to mp3 locally on the box). there's many ways to go about what you want. i currently have 1 linux box that i use as my file server. i use ushare and mediatomb to stream movies and music to my 360 and ps3 so i can watch them on my tv and samba and nfs or x forwarding to watch/listen to them off my laptops or if anyone brings over a windows laptop. and even though i don't need it, i have x11vnc running so i can connect to display:0 for ****s and giggles. really though, you could just x forward instead of installing vnc. all in all, pretty simplistic.

 

Simplistic to someone who knows linux; I sir, do not.

 

I just got an incoherent deja-vu...

fuji0000, for these situations, there are expressions like ' +1', ' ^what he said' or ' I concur/Hell yeah!' etc.

 

you forgot 'you be da man!' LOL....I lost a year of age reading this.....