Administrator Tarun Posted January 27, 2014 Administrator Share Posted January 27, 2014 Over the past few days I've been messing with my home server and trying different Linux distros. I've gone from: Ubuntu > Xubuntu > Arch (trying to set it up but realizing I'm not ready for it yet) > Xubuntu > Manjaro So far, Manjaro XFCE has been to my liking. Fewer issues and things have been much easier to set up on that old machine. Just a shame the hardware is so old. P4 3.4GHz, 3GB RAM, and recently had to downgrade the PSU and graphics card (128MB card because the one before - a 512MB - had the fan go bad and make a lot of noise despite trying to fix it) in order to have a working, silent server PC once more. greenknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted January 28, 2014 Author Administrator Share Posted January 28, 2014 For the most part, everything has been very smooth. The only hiccups I'm having (aside from learning all the new commands) is some packages aren't necessarily working that well. Example: I went to install an IRC server, Inspircd. Unfortunately it had some issues and upon the suggestion from cluberti, I decided to try another IRC server. Time to see how that goes over the next few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Which edition of Manjaro did you get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted January 29, 2014 Author Administrator Share Posted January 29, 2014 Ah, good point! I'll edit my original post to include the exact version. (Manjaro XFCE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 What really impresses me is how compact the Openbox edition is. The iso is only 660 MB, that would easily fit on a CD. That is super-lightweight for a full-featured Linux distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 13, 2014 Author Administrator Share Posted February 13, 2014 Just my luck. A short while after starting this... My home server computer no longer boots. Processor Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.4GHz Memory 3072MB RAM Hard Drive 320 GB Western Digital Motherboard Intel Video Card ATI x600 128 MB Sound Card Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS I stripped everything out except for two fans, power button, motherboard and cpu power and it did not boot. : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Did you ever get this to boot again? Looking at your stripped-down list I've previously had motherboards fail to boot without a HD attached. I've also had motherboards fail to boot without a video card attached. What put you off Ubuntu and on to Manjaro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted March 5, 2014 Author Administrator Share Posted March 5, 2014 I'll have to try it with a graphics card in (it has onboard yet that was disabled on the BIOS, shouldn't matter though) but it wouldn't POST. No beeps or anything. A little red light stayed on the entire time on the motherboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Red light? A number of motherboards (as you may already know) have a small LED which glows to show that standby power is applied (i.e. that the power supply is plugged-in to the mains, basically) but all the ones I've seen to-date have been green, not red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted March 11, 2014 Author Administrator Share Posted March 11, 2014 I believe this one had both. One that was green, the other was lower on the board that was red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted June 22, 2016 Author Administrator Share Posted June 22, 2016 I'm currently running Antergos on a computer that used to run WIndows ME, from 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Any new distros you've been trying? I have a really old, slow laptop so I'm only interested in running a very lightweight OS, so far lubuntu hits the spot. Xubuntu does look really nice but as far as I'm aware isn't as lightweight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted November 30, 2016 Author Administrator Share Posted November 30, 2016 I actually just burned the last Antergos x86 distro last night, and also the 2016-11-01 Arch dual (x64 and x86 in one ISO) distro. @Synapse has both Arch and Windows 10 on his system as dual boot. So this will be something I'll try in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 16 hours ago, Tarun said: I actually just burned the last Antergos x86 distro last night, and also the 2016-11-01 Arch dual (x64 and x86 in one ISO) distro. @Synapse has both Arch and Windows 10 on his system as dual boot. So this will be something I'll try in the future. Thats interesting, dual boot would be decent. What gives Antergos the edge over more traditional ubuntu-type options? And can you recommend any lightweight alternatives to Lubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted December 1, 2016 Author Administrator Share Posted December 1, 2016 Honestly, I tried a few Ubuntu flavors and found them to be trash. I dropped Manjaro for Antergos because Manjaro had some poor security practices (I'll have to find the links) which was enough to turn me away. Antergos is based on Arch, but with a UI to help you get started. For someone who is learning, a UI can be useful when you want to try and get somewhere until you begin learning terminal commands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Linux Mint also has an Xfce edition, for one lightweight alternative. Antergos does look interesting. I looked at Arch, decided it was too much effort, but it sounds like Antergos overcomes that. Might try that out, too. Nice thing about Linux, you don't have to install it to try it out. A big advantage for Arch and its variants is that it's rolling release, it updates continuously. You never have to install a new version to be up to date, which saves a lot of time and effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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