win7 64bit ult. or a free ubuntu 64 bit?

[dtiao7eb]

hello all,

I recently have been using WHS for backing up all my computers @ home... but i've decided to switch to a regular OS system to do file sharing from itunes... Currently i'm sharing my movies, tv shows, and music (all purchased from itunes T_T) from my main computer (listed below). I have managed to fill out my entire 1 tb harddrive! lol sux....i don't think iTunes can store media on multiple drives. and it is too late to raid in another drive with out formatting everything i currently have... WHS has so far been a pain the the a$$. For somereason (i don't know if this is the standard) but my monitor receives no signal when WHS has loaded. So i am unable to install iTunes on it (if it is even possible) so i'm thinking of just changing the OS on that system to windows 7 or maybe ubuntu linux(since its free, but i have no experience using it)

questions:

is there a system that is better on power management? these computers will be on 24/7 for the most part, but always trying to be green.

is iTunes able to be installed on linux?

and is raiding harddrives together for linux problematic?

my whs system is a SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPE-H-D525-O Proprietary Intel Atom D525
4gigs ram
and 4 1tb samsung spinpoint f3 hds

 

[salvage-this]

Ubuntu would be a good choice except for that all of your media has been bought through iTunes. iTunes DRM locks all of your media to your account. So the movies and music that you have would transfer to an Ubuntu machine just fine but there would be no way to play it. If you need it just for storage and nothing else Ubuntu should work fine.

Edit: you should be able to set up a file sharing server with Ubuntu that will be able to host the music to be played through iTunes on other Windows PCs

 

[dtiao7eb]

thanks for the info.... i know itunes allows up to 5 computers to "share" an account. I guess i'll go with win7 since i can just stream itunes to itunes.

Thanks for the help