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Perfect Linux Home Server:

Brought to you by: System76

What makes for a good server OS? A few important things to look for:

A deep repository of packages, that are reasonably current.
Good online support/community for howto’s and guides.
Good security.

I was not happy with my big storage options for Linux, I want a native kernel level implementation of ZFS, but I want the cutting edge software options of Linux.

I bought a FreeNAS Mini from iXsystems that I use as my backend storage apliance. In front of that I have an Ubuntu 12.04 that has an NFS mount to the ZFS storage on the FreeNAS Mini box.

Home Network Essentials:

File Syncing:

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Usenet:

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Michal Parusinski

Actually the Spotweb website is dutch I believe
carolinason

I caught the show for the first time live and also checked out the reddit site. as far as what was said in the show, i was thinking that even if ubuntu is going inside perhaps till releases are made, doesn’t mint do this? i looked for betas of mint 14 flavors and either didn’t look hard enough or am unable to use google… just saying.
http://twitter.com/codedivine rahul garg

I am a little surprised that Matt was talking about Ubuntu bringing in “yes men”. Not sure why he thinks Ubuntu will only involve “yes men”, that would not gain them anything. I think Chris was a bit more balanced while Matt just reacted a bit prematurely perhaps.
ZombieJerky

CalDav-Sync beta is not free though. It was at one time, but he started charging for it. I have been using it for a couple of years now and has worked really well for me.
Puk

Yes… Spotweb is Dutch…
Actually something which is not in this episode; Spotweb is completely translated to English. Also using the standard API from Spotweb and SABnzbd makes downloading much easier (no more dropbox) and less complicated as shown in this video.