[GRLUG] distro advice

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:09:12PM -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> 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?).

If I had actually read your question closely, I would have noticed the
client part. Yep, you need xorg for that. I'd go with Crunchbang. Very,
very light with a simple install.
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