Jim Lesurf wrote:

The other is an Acer laptop (Xubuntu 9.04) again with a solid state
disc and with an optical spdif output. This I feed to various DACs
depending on which room it is in at the time and what else I am
doing. If you 90% close the lid the screen goes off and the batteries
then last a long time before a recharge if you are just playing audio.

Jim,

Does XUbuntu demand much CPU grunt or many system resources ? I have an old
discarded laptop that I was considering pressing into service as an audio
storage machine. No SSD but it is fairly quiet.