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I'm completely a Newbie. I have some parts lying around which I want to make a system for Asterisk and also a file server for my movies a) Asus P5PE-VM motherboard b) Pentium D 805 2.66GHz c) 1Gb DDR ram d) 160GB HDD for OS e) 2x Sillicon Image 3114 SATA pci adapters e) Linksys PAP2T voip adapter 4 systems + 2 laptops (WinXP) + xbox must be able to access the files in the server. Asterisk needed to connect phones in various locations in and out of the country. Which Linux should I install? hopefully I can install Linux with desktop interface like Xandros. I've 8 x hdds in NTFS fully loaded need to be installed into the system. Can I just plug them in without deleting the files inside it? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.