Anyone help me to choose a suitable Server O/S?

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I've bought a HP ProLiant MicroServer as getting one for £112 just seemed too good an offer to miss. However, I'm not sure what O/S to use?

I want to use it as a file store, backup for the PC's, media server and be able to access my files remotely.

Can anyone suggest a good O/S to use? I have no real experience with anything other than Windows O/S environments (or at least to a degree that I would call competent).

Thanks,

Andy.
 
Well i expect a lot of peopel will recommend Window home server, not sure of cost, since you have window experience.

Personally I'd go with Debian net install and just install what I needed. Samba / nfs for filestore, ssh for remote access, firefly / mtdaapd for music/itunes , http / ftp for file access if wanted / web hosting basically anything you want to do can be done with a debian fileserver box. I think there are now linux distros centered around makign a freindly home server box. Dont know the names of any offhand though.
 
kae2 said:
Would Ubuntu Server 10.10 come under the heading of a debian install?
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I guess it would. Probably slightly more freindly for a n00b. (meant in a nice way) The ubuntu forums are a rich source of info. I've used debian since the late 90's so I just go with what's comfortable.
 
Cheers!

I've yet to find a piece of equipment I couldn't get my head around, I've just never bothered to stray from Windows (if it works and all that), so I'll give it a go.

Ta,

Andy.
 
Chaos said:
I havn't tried it but Ive seen a few people talking about http://www.amahi.org/ might be worth a bash.
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i am toying with this too, ive never used linux before and this seems to be suitable for my needs (Which arent great!).

I have two 2tb drives which i would like to use with greyhole, if i want the equivalent of raid 1, do i just tell it to make one copy of every file and i have 1tb of usable space?
 
To be honest, any linux distribution sans GUI will do if you want to go down that path, while ubuntu might be a bit bloated compared to some the difference is splitting hairs, if the performance matters that much just buy proper hardware rather than a low power, ultra cheap box...

I'd use Fedora, I like yum and CentOS is too far behind current now for my purposes outside of business production...
 
The performance isn't a main concern, hey, it's a £200 box discounted to £100. I'm not expecting the world.
Thanks for all your suggestions, think I'm going to have a play with various trials and see what I can get my head around.
 
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