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Help with mp3 jukebox idea.

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Ok, so I built my sister a new computer. My brother wants to take her old one, a pentium 120, 16mb ram gateway for his frat house's game room. He just wants it to run winamp, and access mp3 files on their network. I will be installing a 10gig hardrive on the machine for room for mp3s, but my concern is finding a stable os to run on it. I don't think it could handle win2k, and i dont think any of his brothers want to learn linux for a simple mp3 box. However, would installing win98 and running the bare minimum of features be stable enough to run winamp for hours, and not have to shut the the pc very often? Thanks for all suggestions.
 
Hi--I would think that it would be plenty stable and runnable if all you want to run is winamp, although I would have some concern about skipping with such a small amount of RAM. Perhaps you could use Win 95, that would probably be even better just for running winamp.

You could just try it and see how it works, that's usually the best way to find out, and it's gonna be different for every system b/c of the different components & all that, so even if it worked for someone else with a similar system it's no guarantee that it would work for you.

Hope this helps.
 
Hmm, i wonder if i even have a copy of win95 anymore. At any rate I might be able to add more ram depending on what the motherboard accepts.
 
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