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unixbird

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    Linux/UNIX, Server administration, Linguistics, Virtualization
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    Just a man who's trying to make it in the IT world

    Need help with Linux/UNIX? Feel free to message me!

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  • CPU
    2x Xeon 5365 @ 3.0GHz
  • Motherboard
    Dell proprietary board
  • RAM
    8GB DDR2 ECC
  • GPU
    Nvidia GTX 650 TI BOOST
  • Case
    Dell proprietary chassis
  • Storage
    1x 60Gb ssd 1x 1Tb HDD
  • PSU
    750 Watt
  • Operating System
    Slackware Linux

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  1. then yes plex can make the videos only stream in 480p. Its pretty easy to put them into specific folders yourself, but if you want you can symlink certain folders to each other so they automatically go into their respective folders
  2. 1. I have a 900GB partition for my plex server (i wish i had 4tb). I would definitely get 4TBs 2. Any pi with a beefy cpu will be good 3. I use normal plex on a headless debian vm with a chrooted sftp server for easy upload as well as a seedbox that connects to it via an nfs share 4. this part im not quite sure about, are you talking about downscaling all videos? you can make plex only shoot 480p etc
  3. if you can do PCI passthrough then install xenserver, have a vm for freeNAS or plex or whatever you want with the 2TBs, and then a passthrough'd gpu for your gaming/cadd vm. I think it will work decently. Now if you DONT have IOMMU support or whatever (not 100% on amd stuff) then maybe have it run a FreeNAS vm with windows or something. I didnt really look at the other replies so maybe by now a solution was found:P
  4. MIT is more my cup of tea, iirc i have something licensed in MIT and its what i usually use
  5. Its still not my cup of tea in licensing terms
  6. Mac OS X is pretty unix like (being based on darwin which is more or less BSD). Linux is not unix, but adheres to many UNIX standards. Also OS X is very proprietary if you didnt already know. If you want to use a very UNIX OS, install a *BSD. Both use Bash by default (unless you install a *BSD in which case you will either get KSH (korn shell) or Bash.
  7. naw you wont be missing much, opensuse uses RPM like fedora does, but I never had good luck with opensuse. Mint isn't that secure (theres lots of reasons why you could google them), and elementary is okay. Ubuntu is a really good all around distro to be using as a beginner
  8. try startx, it starts the DE (desktop environment) if the desktop manager isnt working correctly
  9. I would go VM just to get it all comfy for you and get you familiarized with everything. Afterwards i would do straight dual boot, and recommend you use a different storage device for linux (grub will overwrite windows boot stuff which isnt a problem, but windows likes to just kill grub whenever it pleases so linux can stop booting without reinstalling grub). Apt is a great starting point, RPM based package managers are a big PITA if you havent used linux deeply before
  10. yeah no problem man, if you need help with PIA on linux just hit me up, its actually what i use as well:P
  11. You can definitely go the route that everyone said (R710 rackmount). Building something similar but i cant attest for how fast it is yet. I got the cpus for 11 USD total on the new build, so R710 may be a good route to go for, just the ram can get pricey for DDR3 ECC
  12. Should be okay on the pfsense box then, i dont have those speeds but i kind of have a similar server that you were posting about
  13. Remember a VPN isnt going to mimic the exact speeds you have, as you are going to be technically on someone elses server a decent bit away. Also to clarify are you saying 25mbps or actual download from steam? My Speed is about 50mbps give or take, when connected to a vpn thats a couple of states away i get about 30mbps
  14. Yes its the same, they may have different packages though (actually they do). So some package commands will be different ie you wont have nmap unless you install it.
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