I have a Squeezebox 3 being driven by a 5 year old 1Ghz Dell box running Windows XP and SlimServer. I stream FLAC files to the players to decode - sounds awesome, even on my Blose satellites. I can be working/surfing/etc. on the machine with no performance issues. So unless you're interested in learning Linux/etc, I don't think there's much of a benefit to OS shopping as far as this application is concerned.

Last edited by Asynchronous; 03/23/06 05:41 PM.