[ale] There's a Distro for That!

Dennis Ruzeski denniruz at gmail.com
Fri Mar 26 15:10:43 EDT 2010


Openfiler is a better network storage option- Especially if you get an
FC card that supports target  mode!
http://www.openfiler.com/

--Dennis



On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:54, m-aaron-r <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>> Had occasion to be perusing the hundreds of packages and
>> flavors and versions of Linux on DistroWatch.com (looking for
>> a distro that will better address the quirks of an older Dell
>> Latitude laptop than Ubuntu 9.10),
>> when it hit me...
>>
>> ... sure, your iPhony may have an APP for that, but Linux
>> will have an entire DISTRO for that!   :-)
>>
>> I'm going to give Linux MINT a shot;  still an Ubuntu / Debian
>> derivative, but I'm hoping they handle the graphics and sound
>> and network card a little more old school.
>>
>> Then I might try making an instant music server with this Distro:
>> http://vortexbox.org/
>>
>> Or an instant network storage device with this:
>> http://www.nexentastor.org/
>>
>> So many interesting worlds to explore, but only two feet.
>> Maybe next lifetime.
>
> If you are into video editing, I believe that Cinelerra has a LIveCD
> version so you don't need to
> keep it loaded all the time.
>
> --
> Pete Hardie
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