[GRLUG] distro advice

John-Thomas Richards jtr at jrichards.org
Tue May 21 14:09:12 EDT 2013


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:09:12PM -0400, Topher wrote:
> I have a slightly older box that I want to use as a minecraft server AND
> client.  It has a VERY old version of mint as well as winXP on it. 
> No-one's used the box in a while, I'm pretty sure I'm just going to wipe
> it clean.
> 
> I want to put linux on it, and I want the install to be as painless as
> possible.  The desktop pretty much doesn't matter, since we just need a
> simple way to load minecraft.
> 
> So I need something kind of light, with an easy install.  I'm thinking
> not gnome or kde, and probably not even xfce.  Something like fluxbox
> sounds about right.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Why bother with xorg at all? Just install your favorite (painless)
distro without x stuff. Or remove the x stuff after install. You can run
the minecraft server from the commandline (is there a GUI for it?).
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john-thomas
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