- Joined
- Feb 25, 2001
- Location
- Iowa
I installed Stage1 Gentoo a few months back on a machine to play around with, and along with some help from you guys here and IRC, I got it to take and work, but didn't have much time to play around with it once installed. I since sold the machine, but have enough spare parts for a new one.
I have decided that I want a Fileserver, to get files off my machine so they can be used by all the computers in the house over the network.
Is Gentoo best for this? Or would I be better of with Windows XP? Mostly music and video files. Right now most of them are on my main rig, in a large NTFS partition.
So to clarify, I want to be able to backup to and pull files from a separate server computer from any workstation in the house, all my machines run WinXP if that matters. What distro and filesystem should I use?
BTW I'm interested in using Gentoo again to finish learning it/messing with linux. So unless another distro offers something alot better, I want Gentoo for its customizability and lack of bloat.
I have decided that I want a Fileserver, to get files off my machine so they can be used by all the computers in the house over the network.
Is Gentoo best for this? Or would I be better of with Windows XP? Mostly music and video files. Right now most of them are on my main rig, in a large NTFS partition.
So to clarify, I want to be able to backup to and pull files from a separate server computer from any workstation in the house, all my machines run WinXP if that matters. What distro and filesystem should I use?
BTW I'm interested in using Gentoo again to finish learning it/messing with linux. So unless another distro offers something alot better, I want Gentoo for its customizability and lack of bloat.