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5 Excellent Linux Media Servers for the Enterprise

Written By
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Eric Geier
Mar 7, 2011

“A good stout Linux media server has a home in the enterprise
because it’s a better tool than traditional file shares for
storing, archiving, and sharing multimedia presentations.

“You can share your music, videos, and photos on your network
via regular folder shares, but using a media server gives you
additional functionality and lets you stream to more devices. A
Linux media server has a home in the enterprise because it’s a
superior tool for storing, archiving, and sharing company
multimedia presentations.

“Here are five different media servers that you can run on Linux
machines:

“MediaTomb

“MediaTomb is an open source UPnP media server, implementing the
UPnP MediaServer V 1.0 specification, released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL). It runs on x86, Alpha, ARM, MIPS,
Sparc, and PowerPC with support for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mac
OS X.”

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