[blackswordca]

Hello,

I am in the process of getting hardware together for a XBMC set top box connected via LAN to a media server. While I have been working with computers for over 10 years professionally, I have almost no linux experience. Ive played with Ubuntu, SUSE and Fedora a little, but not enough to call myself any bit of an expert.

A friend of mine has a nice mac XBMC setup, with a linux media server and I would like to setup something similar on my own. Ive been debating an XBMC live or an XBMC/EEEBuntu setup. Im looking at basically streaming media over the network, and possibly some youtube/hulu as well. What kind of setup would you recommend? Do i need anything special for the server side?

Thanks for answering some newb questions.

[jhsrennie]

For static content, e.g. mp3s and mpegs, I would just use SMB file sharing. If I didn't know Linux well I'd use a Windows file server.

JR

[blackswordca]

Is there any advantage to running XBMC live over XBMC w/EEEbuntu?