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On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:48:27 +0000 Paul Sutton wrote: > 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 Probably not, but then there was this sentence: "It might land up with XBMC installed on it at a later date." Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq