Ok, so this might not be a hot request, but here we go…
I believe, with the direction that PMS has been moving over the years, that it would be incredibly beneficial to do a ground-up Linux distro built around the Plex environment (much like steam did with SteamOS). There are a number of feature requests that are currently heating up that center on the concepts of server management, server communication, LAG/LACP, master/slave relations, server administration, unified server clustering, dynamic transcode terminals, load balancing, stream cap mitigation, user logging, server usage state syncing, sharing optimizations, client control, and controlled testing labs.
If Plex were to move either toward more server friendly plug-ins & programs for server/virtual environments (CentOS, Windows Server, Hyper-V, etc.), it would be a tremendous boost of support for quite a few power users that I know of. If Plex were to move more towards BEING that server environment (or at least being heavily integrated into one, not asking you to reinvent the wheel), that would go a much longer way along all those veins of discussion than individual updates could ever hope to achieve.
TLDR;
What I’m essentially proposing, is that PMS ceases to be a media serving app, cocoon itself, and metamorphosize into the fire-breathing-death-dragon-puppy that is “PLEXos, the mildly mortiferous mega magnanimous medium of multi-media”…forgive my elongated bantering, I’m a budding morosopher :#
Cheers!
~P.S.~ Please note, I do know what I’m asking. Not exactly an “easy kill”. But there are a number of ways you could do it without changing too much of the source code you’ve already built up. Simply having a unified GUI’d Management Server would strip a lot of dev out of having to rework what’s been set in stone.
