In an attempt to reduce my electricity bill because of an old Athlon system running 365, I've just bought the bits to make up an ITX system (Jetway J7F4K mobo).
This is to be on 24/7. I'm planning on having it boot from compact flash and will have a single 3.5" HDD for storing all content. The machine will also act as an FTP server and I'd like to have the ability to run a torrent client on it.
My old box had XP Pro on it. I could use that for this, but have been looking into Windows XP Embedded to benefit from features such as EWF to safeguard the life expectancy of the compact flash card. However, I've been struggling to get the downloadable 120 day eval working properly.
So I was wondering about some distro of Linux. Of course, it could fulfil all the basic requirements such as CIFS sharing, FTP server and of course have a simple GUI with a torrent client and a few other bits and pieces. What I want to find out is one that does the above, also has good power management features (power off hard disk when not in use), has driver support for the Jetway mobo and also has a similar feature to EWF so that it won't write random logs / use swap files, etc. Oooh and if it can also run as a DLNA server for my PS3, that would be nice too
Any recommendations please? Note I've played around a tiny bit with Linux but wouldn't be up to the level of compiling my own kernel to include a particular feature
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To get me going, I did install XP to get to grips with the board, a Jetway J7F4K ITX-based solution, and it's the most unstable pile of **** I've ever had the misfortune of handling, bluescreening every time I try and do something involving I/O, mainly the network. I did try another NIC card, not using the built-in ones, but same effect. I then tried copying files from one hard drive to another locally, and that appeared to work, but after a few minutes, BSOD again with processr.sys