Ideas for home media server with Dell laptop?
- by Warlax
Hi guys,
We have an old Dell Inspiron laptop we don't use anymore and would look to turn it onto a media/backup server for music/pictures - and maybe documents/code.
The laptop only has 40Gb of HD space but we can hook to it a USB external HD with an additional 80Gb.
This is a very general question:
- What OS should I put on it (more like, what flavor of Linux)?
- What media/backup server software should I install on top of that?
- How would you go about backing up to it? I need to back up computers on the same LAN, some have Windows, some OS X, some Linux.
If you could point me to an all-in-one solution with a nice tutorial for non-sysadmin folks it would be greatly appreciated, thank you!!!