I am pretty new at all this. But I got jellyfin and such setup on my window box. I have a roku client and all that working. So now it is time to look into a standalone box to run 24/7. But I don’t know what specs matter.

I have read that I need at least a 6th gen intel i7 or i5 to take advantage of a feature that helps with this sort of thing.

But outside of that. Does ram matter? How much of a drive do I need on the box? (Going to get a NAS for real storage). Any other specs that matter? I am hoping to go fanless (not because I know anything, but cause I want it to be silent), is that ok? And which flavor of linux is the most popular?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•11 months ago

    I set my server to power cycle each day and be off for a few hours to prevent my self from any issues with the mono runtime that jellyfin is using.

    I wonder if .net is on the roadmap…

    • SynestineEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Odd, I only have to reboot mine for updates. Other than that it seems fine running on a Linux VM with 2GB RAM, after the initial setup.

      And it uses the dotNet runtime 6 so I’m unclear on what roadmap you refer to.

        • SynestineEnglish
          1•11 months ago

          As far as I can tell, it has always used the dotNet 6 framework.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•11 months ago

            Oh nice, I better check to make sure my server isn’t running some weird version, thanks 👍

          • @[email protected]English
            1•11 months ago

            I just check the git page, it’s now using .net 8. Which is great. Maybe I can turn off the rebooting then. I did this to protect my self from mono lol.