So my company just canned a really nice server, and I inherited, my question is All i want to do is run it as a file server for my media and maybe run a little bit of hashing for litecoin on it, is there a simple linux gui based server OS that I can use?
Ubuntu distro is at the most supported by Linux community at the moment, but if you are more into coding and making your stuff fit your needs you could start with some really small linux distro, strip it from packages you don`t need anyway and end up with tweaked filesystem support, small compressed OS size (more disc space is handy), some networking (eth0 or wifi) and all cpu cycles allocated to hashing only.