Set up home file server with linux

jenny smith

Set up home file server with linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDwoDj2cW6c

if you do this to store photos and video clips that will need editing do you need to drag them to the editor, edit and save to the server. is that how it works, like you drag a photo to photoshop, edit and save to photo folder? If so would it be slow.

There would also be documents andsome music but te big files are photos and video

Is ubuntu safe? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches/

PrzemoF

What's the question? I can edit photos "directly" on the server, but network speed is the limiting factor anyway.

That article is from 2012... ubuntu is and was safer than any proprietary system when it comes to spying you.

jenny smith

PrzemoF wrote: »

What's the question? I can edit photos "directly" on the server, but network speed is the limiting factor anyway.

That article is from 2012... ubuntu is and was safer than any proprietary system when it comes to spying you.

i did not know you could edit on the server. Does the editing program have to be on the server?

What's the question?

if it would be too slow

jimgoose

Ubuntu is perfectly safe, within the usual caveats. You'll probably be using something like Samba to serve the machine's local storage via the network via the usual protocols - SFTP/HTTP(S)/SMB - and it should be all the same to any program running on a client where the files physically reside.

PrzemoF

jenny smith wrote: »

i did not know you could edit on the server. Does the editing program have to be on the server?

if it would be too slow

You could explore remote access, but for movie editing you don't really want anything that is not local unless you want to play with something like infiniband [1] or 10Gb ethernet.

[1] http://www.davidhunt.ie/infiniband-at-home-10gb-networking-on-the-cheap/

jenny smith

Thanks guys @that david hunt link is amazing, bit beyond me i think though