Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-18 Thread Peter
Pat Farrell wrote: Peter wrote: Thanks, I will be switching from Vista to Ubuntu and dedicate the machine for squeezecenter. I have seen it on a friends laptop and I must admit it is impressive. Furthermore I will be able to remote access from my Mac with the built in VNC in Leopard. I

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-17 Thread oktup
I used to run Slimserver on XP but moved to Ubuntu, and am very happy with that decision. Faster player response times and fewer 'quirky' episodes, ie just more rock solid generally ;) -- oktup oktup's Profile:

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-17 Thread Jac
Thanks, I will be switching from Vista to Ubuntu and dedicate the machine for squeezecenter. I have seen it on a friends laptop and I must admit it is impressive. Furthermore I will be able to remote access from my Mac with the built in VNC in Leopard. I hope it will resolve my issue #1 which

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-17 Thread agillis
The SqueezeCenter interface is running a lot of javascript. So it can be a little slow if you doing something complex. But I find it runs at a decent speed for most operations. Try FireFox 3 if your not already using it. It has a faster javascript engine. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover artÂ…

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-17 Thread iPhone
Jac;406491 Wrote: Hi, I have now had my duet for a while now but I am to the point of giving up as I cannot get it to be stable to the point I would want it to be. I have dedicated a PC (Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz running Vista) . The only other program running is windows MS Mediacenter which

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-17 Thread Peter
Jac wrote: Thanks, I will be switching from Vista to Ubuntu and dedicate the machine for squeezecenter. I have seen it on a friends laptop and I must admit it is impressive. Furthermore I will be able to remote access from my Mac with the built in VNC in Leopard. I hope it will resolve my

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-17 Thread Pat Farrell
Peter wrote: Thanks, I will be switching from Vista to Ubuntu and dedicate the machine for squeezecenter. I have seen it on a friends laptop and I must admit it is impressive. Furthermore I will be able to remote access from my Mac with the built in VNC in Leopard. I hope it will resolve

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-15 Thread Peter
Jac wrote: Who can recommend the simplest setup where there would be no (very very low) risk of the this anoying hickup to occasionaly happen. Is Linux server, any distro. Wire the server to the router and if at all possible wire the SB's to the router as well. Do not use wireless between

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-15 Thread Howard Passman
Having never bothered with Linux, I run XP Pro and strip all of the junk out of it. The OS, SC, iTunes, Moose and sundry plug-ins take up 6.4GB and ran wihtout intervention on a normal hard drive until recently when I migrated it to a OCZ 30GB SSD. Now I have less maintenance (no defrags) and

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-15 Thread Jac
OK, Thanks for the comments There seems to be mixed opinions about the having 2 AP with same SSID. I often see my duet remote reconnecting to the AP as I often travel with the remote where it probably connects looses signal from one of the AP and connects to the other one. Hmmm I think I

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-15 Thread bernt
I have used Ubuntu server for a long time and never had any kind of trouble with it. The only thing that could be frustrating for a Linux beginner is setting up Samba. If I were you I would go for Vortexbox. Next time I change hardware on my server I will install Vortexbox on it. -- bernt

[slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Jac
Hi, I have now had my duet for a while now but I am to the point of giving up as I cannot get it to be stable to the point I would want it to be. I have dedicated a PC (Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz running Vista) . The only other program running is windows MS Mediacenter which is connected to a TV used

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread agillis
You should not run two access points with the same ID. Get one access point and a wifi extender. Vista should be stable although sometimes the multitasking abilities leave something to be desired. I would recommend VortexBox it's simple and uses very low resources. -- agillis rip, tag, get

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Pat Farrell
Jac wrote: Who can recommend the simplest setup where there would be no (very very low) risk of the this anoying hickup to occasionaly happen. Is squeezecenter more stable on LINUX? or maybe on MAC. I don't have personal experience running SqueezeCenter on anything but Linux. I can say

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Millwood
agillis;406493 Wrote: You should not run two access points with the same ID. Get one access point and a wifi extender. Vista should be stable although sometimes the multitasking abilities leave something to be desired. I would recommend VortexBox it's simple and uses very low resources.

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting Millwood (millwood.3p29mz1237072...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com): agillis;406493 Wrote: You should not run two access points with the same ID. Get one access point and a wifi extender. Vista should be stable although sometimes the multitasking abilities leave something to be

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread peterw
Millwood;406528 Wrote: Nonsense. Any large office runs multiple access points with the same SSID. And most probably have more sophisticated setups than a couple of consumer-grade wireless routers blindly using the same SSID. At my job we use radios from Tropos that are more expensive than

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Jeff Moore
Over the last few years, I've been running various flavors of SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on a couple of Linux releases (currently Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS) and it's been really solid (for the solid SlimServer/Squeezecenter releases -- Squeezecenter has been quite good through most of its life, and

Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Goodsounds
The software is EXTREMELY stable on XP. I could echo the many comments above that were made for linux. For me, slim software on XP: Runs for month after month without being touched. Has been trouble free for years (except for one incident that required a reboot) Never freezes or jams, instant