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On 10/01/11 06:52, Rob Beard wrote: > On 09/01/11 23:59, Graham Pearce wrote: >> >> I'm looking to make up a new low powered nas box to live in the loft in >> the near future when >> FTTC is enabled in my area, about march time ish. The motherboard that >> I'm thinking about using >> >> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2011/01/04/amd-zacate-mini-itx-motherboards-preview/3 >> >> >> >> Its faster than the Atom ION boards, It might land up with XBMC >> installed on it at a later date. >> It will be used for my email server, www, and teamspeak 3 server. >> Up till now i've been using a VPS server, with whatever distro it comes >> with. I'm fairly noobish with linux, so >> what would be the a good distro for me in install. Once up and running, >> it won't have a screen attached. >> Being so new am I likely to run into any driver issues? >> >> regards >> >> >> > > Maybe Ubuntu would be a good choice. > > Bear in mind though, the AMD graphics chipsets have rather lousy Linux > support, they do have reasonably proprietary drivers but if you want to > play HD video on them then you're possibly going to run in to issues. > > However as the board has got one PCI express slot, you could pop in an > nVidia Geforce graphics card that supports VDPAU (I believe the Geforce > 9XXX and upwards supports this) which will give you hardware > acceleration in XBMC. > > Rob > Do you need decent graphics hardware etc for a NAS box, Paul -- Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq