I was given an 486DX2-60 with 24MB RAM. It's in a slim desktop case...would work real nice as a MP3 player for a home theater.
I want to use it for the following purposes:
Primary Use: I want to put it on my home LAN and use it for a fileserver and file backup server.
Secondary Use: Place it near my home theater and use it to play MP3's. I currently have it loaded with Win95B, but their is no Windows MP3 players that can play MP3 files without skipping on a machine that slow.
Is Linux the way to go to accomplish the above two goals? I've always heard that Linux is more effecient than Windows and will work on old hardware better than Windows. Which distro is geared towards this type of project? I would like to have a GUI since I have little...very little Linux experiance (installed it a couple of times and played with if for a bit). I am currently downloading RedHat9 as we speak...I hope it will do the trick.
Thanks for any advice.
P.S. The search don't work....j/k mods
I want to use it for the following purposes:
Primary Use: I want to put it on my home LAN and use it for a fileserver and file backup server.
Secondary Use: Place it near my home theater and use it to play MP3's. I currently have it loaded with Win95B, but their is no Windows MP3 players that can play MP3 files without skipping on a machine that slow.
Is Linux the way to go to accomplish the above two goals? I've always heard that Linux is more effecient than Windows and will work on old hardware better than Windows. Which distro is geared towards this type of project? I would like to have a GUI since I have little...very little Linux experiance (installed it a couple of times and played with if for a bit). I am currently downloading RedHat9 as we speak...I hope it will do the trick.
Thanks for any advice.
P.S. The search don't work....j/k mods