I've had an old Dell tower laying around for a while. A year or so ago I used it to test out distros without the fear of botching up my main PC, and for a minute I believed I might actually start using that lovely Pentium 4 again for daily tasks. Then I realized that I don't use desktops. I use laptops. VortexBox sounded like a great idea. For those who don't know, and are too lazy to click the link, you pop in a CD full of music and it automatically gets ripped and tagged. On top of that the cover art gets downloaded, and you have a lovely little multimedia streaming device. Then I realized that my 30GB hard drive wouldn't hold that many music files, especially music files that have .flac on the end. After a year of collecting dust the old relic has returned to life...as a server.
I considered a LAMP server, then I realized I don't need a LAMP server. What I do need is a place to store 15 or 20 distributions that I keep hopping and a handful of files I'd really like to back up in a secure-ish place. Ubuntu Server made it pretty mindless. And now for a pretty abstract step by step.
- Download Ubuntu Server
- Install Samba and OpenSSH (and CUPS if you want)
- Make IP address static.
- Filezilla.
For now I'll leave it at this, and let you learn the power of www.google.com
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