Had the old Netvista X41, nice look, bought it for the girlfriend back
then. But got demoted fast with it's P4 and 256mb of ram.
For a time it was my bbs. Its resilient, build like a tank and can
reboot on its own after a power failure, so it was perfect. But still I
had a better machine available to make a virtualization server, so I
virtualized the image of the machine on that server and that was it, the
machine went to collect dust.
From time to time i would put a old windows xp or try distros of Linux
but apart puppy linux nothing was really fast enough.
I'm going to move soon, so I had to decide do I take some parts in it
and send the rest to recycling or do I try one last time to make
something useful with it.
Tried a lot of distro again, wanted to have something still supported.
lubunthu 18 managed to work kind of fine but slooooooow for anything
more that opening a terminal in the gui. Firefox would be unusable. More
ram would help ( though it had placed 512 in it, but nah must have used
it on something else, it was a 256)
so i disabled the gui and it became more usable. I though how about a
media server ? tried on install plex but nah, it's 64bit now.
but i found something not so bad. I don't know if you know it, it's
called Gerbera ( https://gerbera.io/ ) wasn't too much of a pain to
install and make it a service that would start on boot up.
So it's great it support UPnP so my Onkyo Amp see it, my Volumio hacked
radio, and phones etc.
it can be configured to watch a folder so when you drop media in it it
update the database. So I've added smb on the box so from elsewhere i
can just put media remotely. So I can shelf that machine anywhere and
don't have to go physically add files to it.
So thanks for reading, just thought it can give an idea of what do to
when a old machine with low specs.
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