UberStudent - Linux for Learners (College and Advanced Secondary Students and Lifelong Learners) Useful Tutorials on Linux and UNIX for Beginners and Experts Alike. How to turn a spare Linux machine into a media server. Linux is brilliant at serving files.
It's this ability that keeps the enterprise world turning to Linux for its heavy lifting jobs and that keeps the world Googling 24/7. But it's just as good at serving files from a computer tucked away under the stairs or stuck in the loft, and a server in your house is now becoming an essential accessory. Mobile phones, games consoles and even televisions are rapidly developing the ability to read, display and play files held on a media centre PC, and Linux is the perfect free software solution. All you need is a relatively low-powered PC, a decent amount of storage and somewhere safe to hide it.