hey i have spare old computer sitting in my garage and i was thinking of installing and testing a linux distro as i am planning to redo my home server network soon
i am currently running Windows Home Server 2011 and i have not complaints it does everything i want it to and is reliable but i have always been curious about builds were people use linux for their home server so thought i might mess around with an old PC and see if i can get it working
I have no experience with linux over the years i have installed Distro's like ubuntu or linux mint on my systems (mostly through Virtualbox) but got frustrated pretty quick at how much more complicated it was to install any programs so went back to windows
can anyone recommend a good distro to try for a home server i am not sure if possible but seeing as all my drives are in ntfs format a distro that can be setup or can straight out of the box detect those would be best as i want to be able to have dual compatibilty between windows and linux
i am currently running Windows Home Server 2011 and i have not complaints it does everything i want it to and is reliable but i have always been curious about builds were people use linux for their home server so thought i might mess around with an old PC and see if i can get it working
I have no experience with linux over the years i have installed Distro's like ubuntu or linux mint on my systems (mostly through Virtualbox) but got frustrated pretty quick at how much more complicated it was to install any programs so went back to windows
can anyone recommend a good distro to try for a home server i am not sure if possible but seeing as all my drives are in ntfs format a distro that can be setup or can straight out of the box detect those would be best as i want to be able to have dual compatibilty between windows and linux