Anyone using Linux Mint for a server setup?

blackster · 16 Mar 2017 at 23:39

Hi Everyone

Is anyone using Linux Mint on their NAS?

I've got two N54L Servers both loaded with drives, I use them to access and store all my media and data.
Installed on each is Windows 10, I like having access to them with a front end OS aswell as remote access via drive mapping etc.

However I've started to run into a few problems, Windows 10 seems to update a lot and cause each server to freeze so a reboot is required, also I've notice some buffering when I stream media from the servers via Kodi playing HD video even though the are hardwired to my network.

So I was gonna swap out the OS on each and use a Linux based software and really like the look and feel of Mint.

I've tried other software in the past such as FreeNas, Windows Home Server 2012 and Windows 7, each had their own Issues so I settled for Windows 10.

What does everyone think or use for their setups?

Thanks

Pete

Kei · 16 Mar 2017 at 23:54

I use opensuse on my home nas. Ran rock solid for over 2 years with little in the way of interruptions. I managed to break samba doing a manual update so had to rebuild the OS last week but it had no effect on the nas side of things. Had it back up and running as before within an hour. Mine runs a hardware raid 5 array, which makes life easier in some respects. (probably worse in others)

Mint is based on debian so it should be great. I've got an old hp xw8200 in work that's running debian 7 (wheezy) which has been up since july 2014 and is still going strong. It gets used as a subtitle burning and mail forwarding machine.

Nikumba · 17 Mar 2017 at 10:41

Looks at using containers and Xpenolgy

XPenolgy is the NAS software that i run on my N54L, there is an option to use containers now, as I understand it sort of a VM system

Kimbie

meandu229 · 17 Mar 2017 at 11:07

I pretty much exclusively use Ubuntu and LXD containers now. I used to have lots of VMs via exsi but have retired them all as the LXD containers give me mostly the same setup but much lighter and easier to manage once setup. Before I have openmedia vault doing a lot of the configs and setups of plugins and such, and while that worked mostly the plugins and configs were never latest versions and could conflict.
Now when I want to setup a service I type say lxc launch baseubunutu nginx and it rolls out my custom base ubuntu image and I can setup nginx exactly as it is documented for Ubuntu without having to worry about conflicting versions or breaking another service. Its really great once setup and understood.

memyselfandi · 19 Mar 2017 at 11:26

I'm using Ubuntu or Oracle Linux for my servers at home normally. Ubuntu mainly for my Plex servers and Oracle Linux for the rest (as it has the benefits of being nigh on identical to RHEL but without the cost (and you can still patch it with no cost entitlement).

Hades · 19 Mar 2017 at 14:45

I love Linux Mint but for a server I have no need of a GUI. I use Ubuntu Server with no GUI on my N40L and just SSH into it when needed.

Steveocee · 20 Mar 2017 at 14:03

Ubuntu-server for my "main" home server (SSD with 4x2TB in RAID10 for media) no desktop but a few web interfaces for the fun stuff (like transmission) and then that backs up the RAID10 to an unRAID server running 3x3TB WD Red's. That has a nice web UI but I only used it for setting up the share for the main server to latch on to.

There's nothing too scary about running a Linux server, it certainly should be leaner on resource than Windows and it's a very useful learning curve as well should you be "IT involved".