Best Linux distro for media server on older box

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Published on 2013-10-23T09:11:33Z Indexed on 2013/10/23 10:02 UTC
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I have an older machine with these specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 @ 2,8 Ghz, 2MB L2 RAM: 4 GB DDR2@ 800 Mhz GPU: Asus 4890 TOP 1 GB

I want to turn the machine into a media server via XBMC (so good video and wireless peripherial driver support would also be a plus), but I also want to use it as an OpenVPN server so I can tunnel RDP to my other Windows machine in the network.

I mostly want to use a Debian based distro (for the convenience of apt) and right now my options are: Ubuntu, Xubuntu or Mint.

Which one do you think is more fitting?

Thanks in advance.

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