A pleasant surprise: VortexBox
As a test for my new torrent slave, I downloaded an ISO of VortexBox, which is something I hadn’t ever heard of, probably because I don’t travel in Fedora circles very much. I had no rationale for grabbing that torrent; it just happened to be at the top of the stack at linuxtracker.org.
For fun, I tried installing it on the X60s. I don’t have any snapshots for you this time, mostly because there’s nothing to see — install it and you’re just at a command prompt.
I know that scares some people, and even in my case, I had to say, “Okay, now what?” Luckily there’s this page, aptly entitled, “OK I installed it, now what?”
The best part of the “now what?” is dropping a CD into the drive. VortexBox automatically rips the CD, labels the files and drops them into its file structure. You access the machine by its web interface, which means you can arrange and configure the network any way you please, then use other machines to stream music from it, connect network audio players or even play music directly through the computer.
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