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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This is what I would like to do but do not know where to start.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have an older Dell (about 6 years old) that currently has windows 7 installed. I would like to take this machine and turn it into a multi media server. I would like to hook up a NAS, run my music through it (mp3 / m4a) movies, display movies if possible, hook it to the net and be able to do normal computing tasks. I am very new to Linux (have been reading the messages here) and I figured that it would be a good idea to have someone help with this. Remembering that I am new to this and do not know where to start and need a simple approach. I have compiled and written code C and C++ in Unix. I played around briefly with Speakup but I lost enters when the machine I was using stopped working (mother board was friend). Now that I have a computer to play with again, I need help setting it up and hardware that I would be able to do this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So let’s start with sound card. It has a Sound Blaster xfy. One network card and two hard drives. It has plenty of processing power. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What flavor of Linux would work for this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How do I get started?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do not have hardware speech and would need to use software speech.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>