mdh;503418 Wrote:
(long-time lurker, first time poster).
Fwiw, I've been running a pair of squeezeboxes off of an eeepc 701 with
a big USB hard drive attached to it and ubuntu server
Same here, I re-purposed an EEEpc 701 (running a stripped version
Ubuntu 9.04). It does a great job of
I just wanted to drop back in to say that I have been watching this
thread, though I haven't posted. Thanks to all for the
thoughts/comments! I will look into VortexBox, as well as Ubuntu
eventually
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I think the market will in 6 months be
flooded with atom bases nettops that do a great job of running sbs at
the 100 dollar price point.
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huytere;503268 Wrote:
I think the market will in 6 months be
flooded with atom bases nettops that do a great job of running sbs at
the 100 dollar price point.
I'm afraid it won't. I've been in the market for a netbook and was
waiting to see what the new generation of Atom processors and the
Applying the mysql tweaks (search here on the forums) might improve the
responsiveness of your web GUI noticeably.
BTW, the funny thing with PineTrail is that the integrated GPU is much
less powerful than before, no HDMI out and external display resolution
is limited to 1440xsomething max!
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(long-time lurker, first time poster).
Fwiw, I've been running a pair of squeezeboxes off of an eeepc 701 with
a big USB hard drive attached to it and ubuntu server quite successfully
for about a year: no noticeable on the devices themselves or through the
web interface.
If you don't mind
I'm using s server with a processor that's actually slower than an atom
- a Via C7, running Win2K.
The web interface isn't ridiculously slow - and, indeed, changes to the
database options seem to speed it up a bit. See 'this thread'
frugality;503178 Wrote:
I may try converting the netbook over to Linux, since Squeezebox Server
is also available for Linux. (though, I don't know if it will run on
something like Ubuntu netbook remix) I haven't messed with Linux yet,
so that is uncharted territory for me.
You could try
I'm dropping some thoughts in case anyone else had been considering
running a netbook as a stand-alone/dedicated server for running their
Squeezebox:
I picked up a Samsung netbook running Windows 7 for $279 at Best Buy
during their Thanksgiving 'cyber Monday' sale, and set it up to run my
frugality;503178 Wrote:
I may try converting the netbook over to Linux, since Squeezebox Server
is also available for Linux. (though, I don't know if it will run on
something like Ubuntu netbook remix) I haven't messed with Linux yet,
so that is uncharted territory for me.
Good
Too bad vortexbox doesn't have a distro with a gui..
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