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Best Linux distro for use as a server?

My friend has an old computer with a 996MHz Processor with 128MB of RAM, and 6GB+90GB hard drives. He wants to use it as a personal server for storing his music, movies, etc. He also needs it to be able to stream videos to his xBox 360. I was thinking a Linux Distro would be best, due to the low specs.

Which distro is the best (fastest, most reliable) to use for media storage and streaming?

Yeah Deabin is pretty easy to set up I would go with lenny with the LXDE desktop and once it is up and running and working you can init 3 to drop back to the command line. once you are good enough you can set your I believe it is your /etc/rc.d start up and default it to run level 3

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